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System Properties Comparison Neo4j vs. openGemini vs. OpenTenBase vs. Riak KV

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NameNeo4j  Xexclude from comparisonopenGemini  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTenBase  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable, ACID-compliant graph database designed with a high-performance distributed cluster architecture, available in self-hosted and cloud offeringsAn open source distributed Time Series DBMS with high concurrency, high performance, and high scalabilityAn enterprise-level distributed HTAP open source database based on PostgreSQLDistributed, fault tolerant key-value store
Primary database modelGraph DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score44.89
Rank#21  Overall
#1  Graph DBMS
Score0.09
Rank#361  Overall
#37  Time Series DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#370  Overall
#156  Relational DBMS
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websiteneo4j.comwww.opengemini.org
github.com/­openGemini
github.com/­OpenTenBase/­OpenTenBase
www.opentenbase.org
Technical documentationneo4j.com/­docsdocs.opengemini.org/­guidedocs.opentenbase.org
docs.opentenbase.org/­en
www.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperNeo4j, Inc.Huawei and openGemini communityOpenAtom Foundation, previously TencentOpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release200720222009
Current release5.20, May 20241.1, July 20232.5, January 20243.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL version3, commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoBSD-3Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise edition
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJava, ScalaGoErlang
Server operating systemsLinux infoCan also be used server-less as embedded Java database.
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Data schemeschema-free and schema-optionalschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesInteger, Float, Boolean, Stringyesno
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 Luceneyesyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageyesno
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 RESTHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languages.Net
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
C
Go
Java
PHP
Python
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
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoUser defined Procedures and FunctionsnoErlang
Triggersyes infovia event handlernoyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes using Neo4j FabricShardingShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesCausal Clustering using Raft protocol infoavailable in in Enterprise Version onlyyesyesselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes
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 ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in graphsnoyesno infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers, roles and permissions. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)Administrators and common users accountsAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardyes, using Riak Security
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Neo4jopenGeminiOpenTenBaseRiak KV
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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