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DBMS > Neo4j vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Titan vs. Transwarp StellarDB vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison Neo4j vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Titan vs. Transwarp StellarDB vs. Yanza

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NameNeo4j  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp StellarDB  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionScalable, ACID-compliant graph database designed with a high-performance distributed cluster architecture, available in self-hosted and cloud offeringsOracles in-memory data grid solutionTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.A distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applicationsTime Series DBMS for IoT Applications
Primary database modelGraph DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMSGraph DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score42.68
Rank#21  Overall
#1  Graph DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#127  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
Websiteneo4j.comwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencegithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titanwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­stellardbyanza.com
Technical documentationneo4j.com/­docsdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencegithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperNeo4j, Inc.OracleAurelius, owned by DataStaxTranswarpYanza
Initial release2007200720122015
Current release5.23, August 202414.1, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL version3, commercial licenses availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0commercialcommercial infofree version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanza
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Implementation languageJava, ScalaJavaJava
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
Windows
Data schemeschema-free and schema-optionalschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
OpenCypherHTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C++
Java
Clojure
Java
Python
any language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoUser defined Procedures and Functionsnoyesno
Triggersyes infovia event handleryes infoLive Eventsyesyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes using Neo4j FabricShardingyes infovia pluggable storage backendshorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesCausal Clustering using Raft protocol infoavailable in in Enterprise Version onlyyes, with selectable consistency levelyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engineno
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
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in graphsnoyes infoRelationships in graphno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDconfigurableACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infooptionallyyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyesyes
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)authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Serveryesno
More information provided by the system vendor
Neo4jOracle CoherenceTitanTranswarp StellarDBYanza
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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