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DBMS > Neo4j vs. PostGIS vs. Trino vs. YTsaurus

System Properties Comparison Neo4j vs. PostGIS vs. Trino vs. YTsaurus

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NameNeo4j  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonTrino  Xexclude from comparisonYTsaurus  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable, ACID-compliant graph database designed with a high-performance distributed cluster architecture, available in self-hosted and cloud offeringsSpatial extension of PostgreSQLFast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQLYTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.
Primary database modelGraph DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#1  Graph DBMS
Score18.94
Rank#30  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score5.34
Rank#60  Overall
#34  Relational DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#306  Overall
#45  Document stores
#45  Key-value stores
Websiteneo4j.compostgis.nettrino.ioytsaurus.tech
Technical documentationneo4j.com/­docspostgis.net/­documentationtrino.io/­broadcast
trino.io/­docs/­current
ytsaurus.tech/­docs/­en
DeveloperNeo4j, Inc.Trino Software FoundationYandex
Initial release200720052012 info2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL2023
Current release5.23, August 20243.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL version3, commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache License, Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJava, ScalaCJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux infoCan also be used server-less as embedded Java database.
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS infofor devlopment
Ubuntu
Data schemeschema-free and schema-optionalyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyes infopluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Luceneyesdepending on connected data-source
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesYQL, an SQL-based language, is supported
APIs and other access methodsBolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
Neo4j-OGM infoObject Graph Mapper
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data Neo4j
TinkerPop 3
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI
Supported programming languages.Net
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoUser defined Procedures and Functionsuser defined functionsyes, depending on connected data-source
Triggersyes infovia event handleryesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes using Neo4j Fabricyes infobased on PostgreSQLdepending on connected data-sourceSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesCausal Clustering using Raft protocol infoavailable in in Enterprise Version onlyyes infobased on PostgreSQLdepending on connected data-sourceyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
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 Consistencydepending on connected data-source
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in graphsyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDdepending on connected data-sourceACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesdepending on connected data-sourceyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers, roles and permissions. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)yes infobased on PostgreSQLSQL standard access controlAccess Control Lists
More information provided by the system vendor
Neo4jPostGISTrinoYTsaurus
News

Announcing the Neo4j Graph Workload for Microsoft Fabric
15 May 2025

Run Cypher From Java
13 May 2025

Integrating Neo4j With LangChain4j for GraphRAG Vector Stores and Retrievers
12 May 2025

This Week in Neo4j: NODES, Knowledge Graph, Graph Analytics, MCP and more
10 May 2025

Aura Graph Analytics: A Technical Deep Dive
7 May 2025

73: Wrapping Trino packages with a bow
9 April 2025

Core Principles and Design Practices of OLAP Engines
27 March 2025

72: Keeping the lake clean
17 March 2025

Twenty four
3 March 2025

71: Fake it real good
27 February 2025

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