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System Properties Comparison Neo4j vs. ObjectBox vs. OpenTSDB vs. Tkrzw vs. Yanza

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NameNeo4j  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparison
Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionScalable, ACID-compliant graph database designed with a high-performance distributed cluster architecture, available in self-hosted and cloud offeringsExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseA concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto CabinetTime Series DBMS for IoT Applications
Primary database modelGraph DBMSObject oriented DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score44.89
Rank#21  Overall
#1  Graph DBMS
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#372  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Websiteneo4j.comobjectbox.ioopentsdb.netdbmx.net/­tkrzwyanza.com
Technical documentationneo4j.com/­docsdocs.objectbox.ioopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.html
DeveloperNeo4j, Inc.ObjectBox Limitedcurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsMikio HirabayashiYanza
Initial release20072017201120202015
Current release5.20, May 20240.9.3, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL version3, commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infofree version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanza
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Implementation languageJava, ScalaC and C++JavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux infoCan also be used server-less as embedded Java database.
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-free and schema-optionalyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsnono
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyes infopluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Luceneyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononono
APIs and other access methodsBolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
Neo4j-OGM infoObject Graph Mapper
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data Neo4j
TinkerPop 3
Proprietary native APIHTTP API
Telnet API
HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
C++
Java
Python
Ruby
any language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoUser defined Procedures and Functionsnononono
Triggersyes infovia event handlernononoyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes using Neo4j FabricnoneSharding infobased on HBasenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesCausal Clustering using Raft protocol infoavailable in in Enterprise Version onlyonline/offline synchronization between client and serverselectable replication factor infobased on HBasenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemCausal and Eventual Consistency configurable in Causal Cluster setup
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in graphsyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infousing specific database classes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers, roles and permissions. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)yesnonono
More information provided by the system vendor
Neo4jObjectBoxOpenTSDBTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto CabinetYanza
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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