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System Properties Comparison etcd vs. Machbase Neo vs. Neo4j vs. PieCloudDB vs. PouchDB

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Nameetcd  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonNeo4j  Xexclude from comparisonPieCloudDB  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA distributed reliable key-value storeTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataScalable, ACID-compliant graph database designed with a high-performance distributed cluster architecture, available in self-hosted and cloud offeringsA cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPPJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.03
Rank#54  Overall
#5  Key-value stores
Score0.17
Rank#337  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score44.89
Rank#21  Overall
#1  Graph DBMS
Score0.32
Rank#289  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websiteetcd.io
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd
machbase.comneo4j.comwww.openpie.compouchdb.com
Technical documentationetcd.io/­docs
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd/­tree/­master/­Documentation
machbase.com/­dbmsneo4j.com/­docspouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperMachbaseNeo4j, Inc.OpenPieApache Software Foundation
Initial release201320072012
Current release3.4, August 2019V8.0, August 20235.20, May 20242.1, January 20237.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infofree test version availableOpen Source infoGPL version3, commercial licenses availablecommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageGoCJava, ScalaJavaScript
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
Windows infoexperimental
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux infoCan also be used server-less as embedded Java database.
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free and schema-optionalyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesno
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 indexesnoyesyes infopluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Luceneyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenoyesno
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
JSON over HTTP
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
Neo4j-OGM infoObject Graph Mapper
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data Neo4j
TinkerPop 3
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
.Net
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Java
PL/SQL
Python
R
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infoUser defined Procedures and Functionsuser defined functionsView functions in JavaScript
Triggersyes, watching key changesnoyes infovia event handlernoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes using Neo4j FabricyesSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.selectable replication factorCausal Clustering using Raft protocol infoavailable in in Enterprise Version onlyyesMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyCausal and Eventual Consistency configurable in Causal Cluster setup
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoRelationships in graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infovolatile and lookup tableyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple password-based access controlUsers, roles and permissions. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standardno
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etcdMachbase Neo infoFormer name was InfinifluxNeo4jPieCloudDBPouchDB
Specific characteristicsNeo4j delivers graph technology that has been battle tested for performance and scale...
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PieCloudDB, OpenPie's flagship product, is a cutting-edge cloud-native data warehouse....
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Competitive advantagesNeo4j is the market leader, graph database category creator, and the most widely...
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Extreme Elastic: PieCloudDB utilizes a cutting-edge eMPP cloud-native architecture...
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Typical application scenariosReal-Time Recommendations Master Data Management Identity and Access Management Network...
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PieCloudDB is ideal for Data mining applications that require extreme scalability...
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Key customersOver 800 commercial customers and over 4300 startups use Neo4j. Flagship customers...
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Sail-Cloud China Shipbuilding Group Haizhou System Soochow Securities ​etc.,
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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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PieCloudDB Community Edition: Community License, Free Download, Self-Hosted Deployment;...
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