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Name

Description

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. With MariaDB ColumnStore a column-oriented storage engine is available too.

Open source graph database

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS info

with OQGraph storage engine

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	#1	Graph DBMS

Website

mariadb.com info

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org info

Site of MariaDB Foundation

neo4j.com

Technical documentation

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

neo4j.com/docs

Developer

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server) info

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

Neo4j, Inc.

Initial release

2009

2007

Current release

10.3.15, May 2019

3.5.4, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source info

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

Open Source info

GPL version3, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) info

Database as a Service

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Azure Database for MariaDB: A fully managed, scalable MariaDB relational database with high availability and security built in at no extra cost
MariaDB Managed Service: A customized MariaDB deployment fully managed by the experts at MariaDB in the cloud of your choice. Keeps you up to date with features, upgrades, hotfixes and security patches.

Implementation language

C and C++

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows info

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

Linux

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

Data scheme

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

schema-free and schema-optional

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support info

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary native API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
Neo4j-OGM info

Object Graph Mapper
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data Neo4j
TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

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

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

yes

User defined Procedures and Functions

Triggers

yes

via event handler

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Horizontal partitioning, sharding with Spider storage engine or Galera cluster info

Partitioning by range, list, hash, key

none

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Master-master replication info

using MariaDB Galera Cluster
Master-slave replication

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol info

available in in Enterprise Version only

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts info

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

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts info

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability info

Support for making data persistent

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

yes

In-memory capabilities info

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

yes

with MEMORY storage engine

User concepts info

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

High availability, scalability, performance beyond MySQL and other databases.
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Typical application scenarios

Web, SaaS and Cloud operational/transactional applications that require high availability,...
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Key customers

Booking.com, Wikipedia, Google, Canal+, ClubMed, Deutsche Telekom, La Poste, Virgin...
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Over 300 commercial customers and over 750 startups use Neo4j. Flagship customers...
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Market metrics

MariaDB is the default database in the LAMP stack supplied by Red Hat and SUSE Linux,...
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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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