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System Properties Comparison Neo4j vs. OpenTSDB vs. RethinkDB vs. STSdb vs. UniData,UniVerse

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NameNeo4j  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonUniData,UniVerse  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 HBaseDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.Key-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodMultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities
Primary database modelGraph DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeKey-value storeMultivalue DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score44.89
Rank#21  Overall
#1  Graph DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Score2.85
Rank#98  Overall
#1  Multivalue DBMS
Websiteneo4j.comopentsdb.netrethinkdb.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4www.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-unidata
Technical documentationneo4j.com/­docsopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlrethinkdb.com/­docsdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata
DeveloperNeo4j, Inc.currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017STS Soft SCRocket Software
Initial release20072011200920111985
Current release5.20, May 20242.4.1, August 20204.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL version3, commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, ScalaJavaC++C#C
Server operating systemsLinux infoCan also be used server-less as embedded Java database.
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
WindowsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-free and schema-optionalschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)optional
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.nono
Secondary indexesyes infopluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Lucenenoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoyes
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
.NET Client APIJava API infoJPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Supported programming languages.Net
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
C#
Java
.Net
Basic infoU2 Basic
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoUser defined Procedures and Functionsnonoyes
Triggersyes infovia event handlernoClient-side triggers through changefeedsnoyes infoU2 Basic
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes using Neo4j FabricSharding infobased on HBaseSharding inforange basednonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesCausal Clustering using Raft protocol infoavailable in in Enterprise Version onlyselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseSource-replica replicationnoneSource-replica replication
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
Immediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in graphsnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoAtomic single-document operationsnoACID infoconfigurable
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCC basedyesyes
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.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers, roles and permissions. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)noyes infousers and table-level permissionsnoAccess rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based
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Neo4jOpenTSDBRethinkDBSTSdbUniData,UniVerse
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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