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System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Neo4j vs. NuoDB vs. OrigoDB

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NameIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonNeo4j  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesScalable, ACID-compliant graph database designed with a high-performance distributed cluster architecture, available in self-hosted and cloud offeringsNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsA fully ACID in-memory object graph database
Primary database modelEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Graph DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.27
Rank#309  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score44.89
Rank#21  Overall
#1  Graph DBMS
Score0.94
Rank#197  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#380  Overall
#50  Document stores
#18  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storeneo4j.comwww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databaseorigodb.com
Technical documentationwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storeneo4j.com/­docsdoc.nuodb.comorigodb.com/­docs
DeveloperIBMNeo4j, Inc.Dassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.Robert Friberg et al
Initial release2017200720132009 infounder the name LiveDB
Current release2.05.20, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoGPL version3, commercial licenses availablecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and C++Java, ScalaC++C#
Server operating systemsLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinux infoCan also be used server-less as embedded Java database.
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-free and schema-optionalyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesUser defined using .NET types and collections
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono infocan be achieved using .NET
Secondary indexesnoyes infopluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Luceneyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimenoyesno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
Neo4j-OGM infoObject Graph Mapper
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data Neo4j
TinkerPop 3
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoUser defined Procedures and FunctionsJava, SQLyes
Triggersnoyes infovia event handleryesyes infoDomain Events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes using Neo4j Fabricdata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtenhorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronized
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesActive-active shard replicationCausal Clustering using Raft protocol infoavailable in in Enterprise Version onlyyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDBSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyCausal and Eventual Consistency configurable in Causal Cluster setup
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in graphsyesdepending on model
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID infotunable commit protocolACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of dataNo - written data is immutableyesyes infoMVCCyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyesyes infoWrite ahead log
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoTemporary tableyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers, roles and permissions. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative UsersRole based authorization
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IBM Db2 Event StoreNeo4jNuoDBOrigoDB
Specific characteristicsNeo4j delivers graph technology that has been battle tested for performance and scale...
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Competitive advantagesNeo4j is the market leader, graph database category creator, and the most widely...
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Typical application scenariosReal-Time Recommendations Master Data Management Identity and Access Management Network...
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Key customersOver 800 commercial customers and over 4300 startups use Neo4j. Flagship customers...
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Market metricsNeo4j boasts the world's largest graph database ecosystem with more than 140 million...
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Licensing and pricing modelsGPL v3 license that can be used all the places where you might use MySQL. Neo4j Commercial...
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