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System Properties Comparison Neo4j vs. SQream DB vs. Teradata vs. UniData,UniVerse vs. Weaviate

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NameNeo4j  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata  Xexclude from comparisonUniData,UniVerse  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable, ACID-compliant graph database designed with a high-performance distributed cluster architecture, available in self-hosted and cloud offeringsa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsA hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilitiesAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelGraph DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score44.46
Rank#23  Overall
#1  Graph DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#227  Overall
#104  Relational DBMS
Score45.33
Rank#21  Overall
#15  Relational DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#97  Overall
#2  Multivalue DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websiteneo4j.comsqream.comwww.teradata.comwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-unidatagithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationneo4j.com/­docsdocs.sqream.comdocs.teradata.comdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidataweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperNeo4j, Inc.SQream TechnologiesTeradataRocket SoftwareWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20072017198419852019
Current release5.20, May 20242022.1.6, December 2022Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 20191.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL version3, commercial licenses availablecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Neo4j Aura: Neo4j’s fully managed cloud service: The zero-admin, always-on graph database for cloud developers.
Implementation languageJava, ScalaC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, ScalaCGo
Server operating systemsLinux infoCan also be used server-less as embedded Java database.
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linuxhosted
Linux
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-free and schema-optionalyesyesschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyesoptionalyes infostring, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references
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.yesno
Secondary indexesyes infopluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Lucenenoyes infoJoin-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash indexyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyes infoSQL 2016 + extensionsyesGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsBolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
Neo4j-OGM infoObject Graph Mapper
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data Neo4j
TinkerPop 3
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB
Java API infoJPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
Basic infoU2 Basic
C
Java
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoUser defined Procedures and Functionsuser defined functions in Pythonyes infoUDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallelyesno
Triggersyes infovia event handlernoyesyes infoU2 Basicno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes using Neo4j Fabrichorizontal and vertical partitioningSharding infoHashingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesCausal Clustering using Raft protocol infoavailable in in Enterprise Version onlynoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationyes
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
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in graphsnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID infoconfigurableno
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.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers, roles and permissions. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights according to SQL-standard and operating system basedAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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Neo4jSQream DBTeradataUniData,UniVerseWeaviate
Specific characteristicsNeo4j delivers graph technology that has been battle tested for performance and scale...
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Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantagesNeo4j is the market leader, graph database category creator, and the most widely...
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Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenariosReal-Time Recommendations Master Data Management Identity and Access Management Network...
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As a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customersOver 800 commercial customers and over 4300 startups use Neo4j. Flagship customers...
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All companies that have data. ​
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Market metricsNeo4j boasts the world's largest graph database ecosystem with more than 140 million...
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As of mid 2023: Over 2 million open source downloads 3500+ Weaviate Slack community...
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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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Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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