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Name

Description

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

Open source graph database

Primary database model

Relational DBMS info

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store info

in DB2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)

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Rank	#6	Overall
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Score	51.66
Rank	#22	Overall
	#1	Graph DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/analytics/db2

neo4j.com

Technical documentation

www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEPGG

neo4j.com/docs

Developer

IBM

Neo4j, Inc.

Initial release

1983

host version

2007

Current release

12.1, October 2016

3.5.8, July 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial info

free version is available

Open Source info

GPL version3, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) info

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux

Can also be used server-less as embedded Java database.
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and schema-optional

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

pluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Lucene

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries info

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
Neo4j-OGM info

Object Graph Mapper
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data Neo4j
TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

.Net
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

yes

User defined Procedures and Functions

Triggers

yes

via event handler

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

none

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol info

available in in Enterprise Version only

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts info

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Causal and Eventual Consistency configurable in Causal Cluster setup
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts info

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability info

Support for making data persistent

yes

User concepts info

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users, roles and permissions. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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