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System Properties Comparison Manticore Search vs. Neo4j vs. Riak TS vs. Sequoiadb vs. Stardog

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NameManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonNeo4j  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.Scalable, ACID-compliant graph database designed with a high-performance distributed cluster architecture, available in self-hosted and cloud offeringsRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLEnterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization
Primary database modelSearch engineGraph DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.29
Rank#302  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score44.89
Rank#21  Overall
#1  Graph DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#307  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#258  Overall
#41  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score2.07
Rank#122  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Websitemanticoresearch.comneo4j.comwww.sequoiadb.comwww.stardog.com
Technical documentationmanual.manticoresearch.comneo4j.com/­docswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latestwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexdocs.stardog.com
DeveloperManticore SoftwareNeo4j, Inc.Open Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesSequoiadb Ltd.Stardog-Union
Initial release20172007201520132010
Current release6.0, February 20235.20, May 20243.0.0, September 20227.3.0, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoGPL version3, commercial licenses availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2commercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++Java, ScalaErlangC++Java
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux infoCan also be used server-less as embedded Java database.
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
LinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeFixed schemaschema-free and schema-optionalschema-freeschema-freeschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyesnoyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexyes
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.Can index from XMLnonono infoImport/export of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes infopluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Lucenerestrictedyesyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoyes, limitedSQL-like query languageYes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server
APIs and other access methodsBinary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
Neo4j-OGM infoObject Graph Mapper
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data Neo4j
TinkerPop 3
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
proprietary protocol using JSONGraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesElixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes infoUser defined Procedures and FunctionsErlangJavaScriptuser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java
Triggersnoyes infovia event handleryes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnoyes infovia event handlers
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedyes using Neo4j FabricShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication based on Galera libraryCausal Clustering using Raft protocol infoavailable in in Enterprise Version onlyselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication in HA-Cluster
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemCausal and Eventual Consistency configurable in Causal Cluster setup
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode
Eventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in HA-Cluster
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in graphsno infolinks between datasets can be storednoyes inforelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACIDnoDocument is locked during a transactionACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers, roles and permissions. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)nosimple password-based access controlAccess rights for users and roles
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Manticore SearchNeo4jRiak TSSequoiadbStardog
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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