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System Properties Comparison Neo4j vs. Oracle Coherence vs. PieCloudDB vs. Stardog vs. Vertica

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NameNeo4j  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonPieCloudDB  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  Xexclude from comparisonVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable, ACID-compliant graph database designed with a high-performance distributed cluster architecture, available in self-hosted and cloud offeringsOracles in-memory data grid solutionA cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPPEnterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualizationCloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.
Primary database modelGraph DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMS infoColumn oriented
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score44.89
Rank#21  Overall
#1  Graph DBMS
Score1.97
Rank#129  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score0.32
Rank#289  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score2.07
Rank#122  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Score10.06
Rank#42  Overall
#26  Relational DBMS
Websiteneo4j.comwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencewww.openpie.comwww.stardog.comwww.vertica.com
Technical documentationneo4j.com/­docsdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencedocs.stardog.comvertica.com/­documentation
DeveloperNeo4j, Inc.OracleOpenPieStardog-UnionOpenText infopreviously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard
Initial release2007200720102005
Current release5.20, May 202414.1, August 20232.1, January 20237.3.0, May 202012.0.3, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL version3, commercial licenses availablecommercialcommercialcommercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/studentscommercial infoLimited community edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono infoon-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJava, ScalaJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux infoCan also be used server-less as embedded Java database.
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMhostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-free and schema-optionalschema-freeyesschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportYes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 infoImport/export of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyes infopluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Lucenenoyesyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatialNo Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesYes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL ServerFull 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.
APIs and other access methodsBolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
Neo4j-OGM infoObject Graph Mapper
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data Neo4j
TinkerPop 3
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL infocharacter-based, interactive, front-end utility
Supported programming languages.Net
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C++
Java
Java
PL/SQL
Python
R
.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoUser defined Procedures and Functionsnouser defined functionsuser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Javayes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences
Triggersyes infovia event handleryes infoLive Eventsnoyes infovia event handlersyes, called Custom Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes using Neo4j FabricShardingyesnonehorizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesCausal Clustering using Raft protocol infoavailable in in Enterprise Version onlyyes, with selectable consistency levelyesMulti-source replication in HA-ClusterMulti-source replication infoOne, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono infoBi-directional Spark integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemCausal and Eventual Consistency configurable in Causal Cluster setup
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in HA-ClusterImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in graphsnonoyes inforelationships in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDconfigurableACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infooptionallyyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers, roles and permissions. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationUser Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL StandardAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash
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Neo4jOracle CoherencePieCloudDBStardogVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™
Specific characteristicsNeo4j delivers graph technology that has been battle tested for performance and scale...
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PieCloudDB, OpenPie's flagship product, is a cutting-edge cloud-native data warehouse....
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Deploy-anywhere database for large-scale analytical deployments. Deploy off-cloud,...
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Competitive advantagesNeo4j is the market leader, graph database category creator, and the most widely...
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Extreme Elastic: PieCloudDB utilizes a cutting-edge eMPP cloud-native architecture...
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Fast, scalable, and capable of high concurrency. Separation of compute/storage leverages...
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Typical application scenariosReal-Time Recommendations Master Data Management Identity and Access Management Network...
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PieCloudDB is ideal for Data mining applications that require extreme scalability...
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Communication and network analytics, Embedded analytics, Fraud monitoring and Risk...
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Key customersOver 800 commercial customers and over 4300 startups use Neo4j. Flagship customers...
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Sail-Cloud China Shipbuilding Group Haizhou System Soochow Securities ​etc.,
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Abiba Systems, Adform, adMarketplace, AmeriPride, Anritsu, AOL, Avito, Auckland Transport,...
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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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PieCloudDB Community Edition: Community License, Free Download, Self-Hosted Deployment;...
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Cost-based models and subscription-based models are both available. One license is...
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