DB-EnginesExtremeDB for everyone with an RTOSEnglish
Deutsch
Knowledge Base of Relational and NoSQL Database Management Systemsprovided by solid IT

DBMS > Neo4j vs. Oracle Coherence vs. RDF4J vs. SurrealDB vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Neo4j vs. Oracle Coherence vs. RDF4J vs. SurrealDB vs. SwayDB

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines
NameNeo4j  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  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 solutionRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMSAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelGraph DBMSKey-value storeRDF storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
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
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websiteneo4j.comwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencerdf4j.orgsurrealdb.comswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationneo4j.com/­docsdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencerdf4j.org/­documentationsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperNeo4j, Inc.OracleSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.SurrealDB LtdSimer Plaha
Initial release20072007200420222018
Current release5.20, May 202414.1, August 2023v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL version3, commercial licenses availablecommercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.
Neo4j Aura: Neo4j’s fully managed cloud service: The zero-admin, always-on graph database for cloud developers.
Implementation languageJava, ScalaJavaJavaRustScala
Server operating systemsLinux infoCan also be used server-less as embedded Java database.
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-free and schema-optionalschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemasschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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 Lucenenoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query languageno
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
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languages.Net
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C++
Java
Java
PHP
Python
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoUser defined Procedures and Functionsnoyesno
Triggersyes infovia event handleryes infoLive Eventsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes using Neo4j FabricShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesCausal Clustering using Raft protocol infoavailable in in Enterprise Version onlyyes, with selectable consistency levelnonenone
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
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDconfigurableACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedACIDAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infooptionallyyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
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 authenticationnoyes, based on authentication and database rulesno
More information provided by the system vendor
Neo4jOracle CoherenceRDF4J infoformerly known as SesameSurrealDBSwayDB
Specific characteristicsNeo4j delivers graph technology that has been battle tested for performance and scale...
» more
Competitive advantagesNeo4j is the market leader, graph database category creator, and the most widely...
» more
Typical application scenariosReal-Time Recommendations Master Data Management Identity and Access Management Network...
» more
Key customersOver 800 commercial customers and over 4300 startups use Neo4j. Flagship customers...
» more
Market metricsNeo4j boasts the world's largest graph database ecosystem with more than 140 million...
» more
Licensing and pricing modelsGPL v3 license that can be used all the places where you might use MySQL. Neo4j Commercial...
» more
News

This Week in Neo4j: Llamaindex, Semantic Search, Graph Database, Entity Resolution and more
15 June 2024

Neo4j-Databricks Connector Delivers Deeper Insights, Faster GenAI Development
10 June 2024

This Week in Neo4j: Podcast, Testing, Knowledge Graph, GenAI and more
8 June 2024

Neo4j and Snowflake Bring Graph Data Science Into the AI Data Cloud
4 June 2024

RDF vs. Property Graphs: Choosing the Right Approach for Implementing a Knowledge Graph
4 June 2024

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources
Neo4jOracle CoherenceRDF4J infoformerly known as SesameSurrealDBSwayDB
DB-Engines blog posts

Applying Graph Analytics to Game of Thrones
12 June 2019, Amy Hodler & Mark Needham, Neo4j (guest author)

MySQL, PostgreSQL and Redis are the winners of the March ranking
2 March 2016, Paul Andlinger

The openCypher Project: Help Shape the SQL for Graphs
22 December 2015, Emil Eifrem (guest author)

show all

Recent citations in the news

Neo4j employs knowledge graphs as part of the AI stack
11 June 2024, SiliconANGLE News

Neo4j Announces Collaboration with Microsoft to Advance GenAI and Data Solutions USA - English - India - English
26 March 2024, PR Newswire

Neo4j graph analytics integrated with Snowflake’s AI cloud
7 June 2024, Blocks and Files

Using Neo4j’s graph database for AI in Azure
4 April 2024, InfoWorld

Neo4j Is Planning IPO on Nasdaq, Largest Owner Greenbridge Says
15 February 2024, Bloomberg

provided by Google News

Create custom Event Compression Policies in Enterprise Manager to reduce event noise
21 September 2023, blogs.oracle.com

Microservices with Major New Coherence and Helidon Releases
9 August 2022, blogs.oracle.com

Turkcell: Processing 70 million messages per day with Coherence and WebLogic
4 January 2013, blogs.oracle.com

Nike achieves scalability and performance with Oracle Coherence & Exadata
20 December 2012, blogs.oracle.com

Oracle releases free open source Oracle Coherence community edition
28 June 2020, iTWire

provided by Google News

GraphDB Goes Open Source
27 January 2020, iProgrammer

Ontotext's GraphDB 8.10 Makes Knowledge Graph Experience Faster and Richer
13 June 2019, Markets Insider

provided by Google News

SD Times Open-Source Project of the Week: SurrealDB
10 May 2024, SDTimes.com

Meet Tobie Morgan Hitchcock, CEO & Co-Founder Of SurrealDB
25 April 2024, TechRound

Cloud, privacy and AI: Trends defining the future of data and databases
27 September 2023, Sifted

SurrealDB raises $6M for its database-as-a-service offering
4 January 2023, TechCrunch

Introducing SurrealDB: A Quantum Leap in Database Technology
11 September 2023, TechRound

provided by Google News



Share this page

Featured Products

Milvus logo

Vector database designed for GenAI, fully equipped for enterprise implementation.
Try Managed Milvus for Free

Datastax Astra logo

Bring all your data to Generative AI applications with vector search enabled by the most scalable
vector database available.
Try for Free

Neo4j logo

See for yourself how a graph database can make your life easier.
Use Neo4j online for free.

Present your product here