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System Properties Comparison Neo4j vs. OpenTSDB vs. PostGIS vs. Realm vs. WakandaDB

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NameNeo4j  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable, ACID-compliant graph database designed with a high-performance distributed cluster architecture, available in self-hosted and cloud offeringsScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseSpatial extension of PostgreSQLA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataWakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data
Primary database modelGraph DBMSTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument storeObject oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score44.46
Rank#23  Overall
#1  Graph DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score7.60
Rank#52  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score0.03
Rank#364  Overall
#17  Object oriented DBMS
Websiteneo4j.comopentsdb.netpostgis.netrealm.iowakanda.github.io
Technical documentationneo4j.com/­docsopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlpostgis.net/­documentationrealm.io/­docswakanda.github.io/­doc
DeveloperNeo4j, Inc.currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019Wakanda SAS
Initial release20072011200520142012
Current release5.19, April 20243.4.2, February 20242.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL version3, commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase 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 languageJava, ScalaJavaCC++, JavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux infoCan also be used server-less as embedded Java database.
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-free and schema-optionalschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyesyesyes
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyes infopluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Lucenenoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesnono
APIs and other access methodsBolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
Neo4j-OGM infoObject Graph Mapper
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data Neo4j
TinkerPop 3
HTTP API
Telnet API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoUser defined Procedures and Functionsnouser defined functionsno inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessaryyes
Triggersyes infovia event handlernoyesyes infoChange Listenersyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes using Neo4j FabricSharding infobased on HBaseyes infobased on PostgreSQLnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesCausal Clustering using Raft protocol infoavailable in in Enterprise Version onlyselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes infobased on PostgreSQLnonenone
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 Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in graphsnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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 infoIn-Memory realmno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers, roles and permissions. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)noyes infobased on PostgreSQLyesyes
More information provided by the system vendor
Neo4jOpenTSDBPostGISRealmWakandaDB
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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