DBMS > Machbase Neo vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Neo4j vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison Machbase Neo vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Neo4j vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Weaviate

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Name

Description

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

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

An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.12
Rank	#339	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	44.46
Rank	#23	Overall
	#1	Graph DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#184	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Score	1.73
Rank	#143	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Website

machbase.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

neo4j.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

machbase.com/dbms

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

neo4j.com/docs

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Machbase

Microsoft

Neo4j, Inc.

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2013

2014

2007

1984

2019

Current release

V8.0, August 2023

5.19, April 2024

7.4.1.1, 2021

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free test version available

commercial

Open Source

GPL version3, commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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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

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Linux

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

HP Open VMS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

schema-free and schema-optional

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

yes

string, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

pluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Lucene

yes

all data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
Neo4j-OGM

Object Graph Mapper
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data Neo4j
TinkerPop 3

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

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

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

yes

User defined Procedures and Functions

Triggers

JavaScript

yes

via event handler

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes using Neo4j Fabric

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

available in in Enterprise Version only

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

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

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

yes, on a single node

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

volatile and lookup table

yes

User concepts

Access control

simple password-based access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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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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All companies that have data.
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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