DBMS > LeanXcale vs. Neo4j vs. OpenQM vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison LeanXcale vs. Neo4j vs. OpenQM vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

Scalable, ACID-compliant graph database designed with a high-performance distributed cluster architecture, available in self-hosted and cloud offerings

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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Score	0.29
Rank	#291	Overall
	#41	Key-value stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Score	44.46
Rank	#23	Overall
	#1	Graph DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#298	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.52
Rank	#254	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

www.leanxcale.com

neo4j.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

neo4j.com/docs

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

LeanXcale

Neo4j, Inc.

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Percona

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2015

2007

1993

2015

1987

Current release

5.19, April 2024

3.4-12

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version3, commercial licenses available

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

GPL Version 2

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Neo4j Aura: Neo4j’s fully managed cloud service: The zero-admin, always-on graph database for cloud developers.

Implementation language

Java, Scala

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

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

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and schema-optional

yes

with some exceptions

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

pluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Lucene

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through Apache Derby

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
Neo4j-OGM

Object Graph Mapper
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data Neo4j
TinkerPop 3

proprietary protocol using JSON

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Scala

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

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

User defined Procedures and Functions

yes

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes using Neo4j Fabric

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

available in in Enterprise Version only

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

via In-Memory Engine

User concepts

Access control

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

Neo4j boasts the world's largest graph database ecosystem with more than 140 million...
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Licensing and pricing models

GPL v3 license that can be used all the places where you might use MySQL. Neo4j Commercial...
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