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System Properties Comparison InfinityDB vs. LevelDB vs. Neo4j vs. TerminusDB vs. Titan

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NameInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonNeo4j  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
DescriptionA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceEmbeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesScalable, ACID-compliant graph database designed with a high-performance distributed cluster architecture, available in self-hosted and cloud offeringsScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value storeGraph DBMSGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.00
Rank#378  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Score2.35
Rank#111  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score44.46
Rank#23  Overall
#1  Graph DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websiteboilerbay.comgithub.com/­google/­leveldbneo4j.comterminusdb.comgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mdneo4j.com/­docsterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#github.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperBoiler Bay Inc.GoogleNeo4j, Inc.DataChemist Ltd.Aurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release20022011200720182012
Current release4.01.23, February 20215.19, April 202411.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoGPL version3, commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++Java, ScalaProlog, RustJava
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMIllumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux infoCan also be used server-less as embedded Java database.
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeschema-freeschema-free and schema-optionalyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysnoyesyesyes
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
Secondary indexesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynoyes infopluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Luceneyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query language (WOQL)no
APIs and other access methodsAccess via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
Neo4j-OGM infoObject Graph Mapper
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data Neo4j
TinkerPop 3
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesJavaC++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
.Net
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScript
Python
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infoUser defined Procedures and Functionsyesyes
Triggersnonoyes infovia event handleryesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneyes using Neo4j FabricGraph Partitioningyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneCausal Clustering using Raft protocol infoavailable in in Enterprise Version onlyJournaling Streamsyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate ConsistencyCausal and Eventual Consistency configurable in Causal Cluster setup
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynoyes infoRelationships in graphsyesyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsnoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infowith automatic compression on writesyesyes infoin-memory journalingyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoUsers, roles and permissions. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)Role-based access controlUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server
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InfinityDBLevelDBNeo4jTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemistTitan
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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