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System Properties Comparison Neo4j vs. Riak TS vs. SAP HANA vs. Transbase vs. Transwarp Hippo

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NameNeo4j  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonSAP HANA  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp Hippo  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable, ACID-compliant graph database designed with a high-performance distributed cluster architecture, available in self-hosted and cloud offeringsRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVIn-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud serviceA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMSCloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets
Primary database modelGraph DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score44.46
Rank#23  Overall
#1  Graph DBMS
Score0.20
Rank#319  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score44.69
Rank#22  Overall
#16  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#13  Vector DBMS
Websiteneo4j.comwww.sap.com/­products/­hana.htmlwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.htmlwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­subproduct/­hippo
Technical documentationneo4j.com/­docswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latesthelp.sap.com/­hanawww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperNeo4j, Inc.Open Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesSAPTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20072015201019872023
Current release5.19, April 20243.0.0, September 20222.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023Transbase 8.3, 20221.0, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL version3, commercial licenses availableOpen Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree development licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono infoalso available as a cloud based servicenono
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Implementation languageJava, ScalaErlangC and C++C++
Server operating systemsLinux infoCan also be used server-less as embedded Java database.
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Appliance or cloud-serviceFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-free and schema-optionalschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesVector, Numeric and String
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyes infopluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Lucenerestrictedyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes, limitedyesyesno
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 API
Native Erlang Interface
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
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
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
C++
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoUser defined Procedures and FunctionsErlangSQLScript, Ryesno
Triggersyes infovia event handleryes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes using Neo4j FabricShardingyesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesCausal Clustering using Raft protocol infoavailable in in Enterprise Version onlyselectable replication factoryesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
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 ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in graphsno infolinks between datasets can be storedyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDyesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers, roles and permissions. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)noyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole based access control and fine grained access rights
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Neo4jRiak TSSAP HANATransbaseTranswarp Hippo
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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