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System Properties Comparison mSQL vs. Neo4j vs. openGauss vs. searchxml vs. Stardog

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NamemSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonNeo4j  Xexclude from comparisonopenGauss  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSScalable, ACID-compliant graph database designed with a high-performance distributed cluster architecture, available in self-hosted and cloud offeringsAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by HuaweiDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverEnterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score44.46
Rank#23  Overall
#1  Graph DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#183  Overall
#84  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#25  Search engines
Score2.02
Rank#123  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Websitehughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlneo4j.comgitee.com/­opengauss
opengauss.org
www.searchxml.net/­category/­productswww.stardog.com
Technical documentationneo4j.com/­docsdocs.opengauss.org/­en
gitee.com/­opengauss/­docs
www.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutsdocs.stardog.com
DeveloperHughes TechnologiesNeo4j, Inc.Huawei and openGauss communityinformationpartners gmbhStardog-Union
Initial release19942007201920152010
Current release4.4, October 20215.19, April 20243.0, March 20221.07.3.0, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoGPL version3, commercial licenses availableOpen Sourcecommercialcommercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCJava, ScalaC, C++, JavaC++Java
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux infoCan also be used server-less as embedded Java database.
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxWindowsLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-free and schema-optionalyesschema-freeschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesno infoImport/export of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyesyes infopluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Luceneyesyesyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial
SQL infoSupport of SQLA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersnoANSI SQL 2011noYes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
Neo4j-OGM infoObject Graph Mapper
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data Neo4j
TinkerPop 3
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
.Net
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C++
Java
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoUser defined Procedures and Functionsyesyes infoon the application serveruser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java
Triggersnoyes infovia event handleryesnoyes infovia event handlers
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes using Neo4j Fabrichorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)nonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneCausal Clustering using Raft protocol infoavailable in in Enterprise Version onlySource-replica replicationyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsMulti-source replication in HA-Cluster
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneCausal and Eventual Consistency configurable in Causal Cluster setup
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in HA-Cluster
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in graphsyesnoyes inforelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDmultiple readers, single writerACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datanoyesyesyesyes
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.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers, roles and permissions. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesAccess rights for users and roles
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mSQL infoMini SQLNeo4jopenGausssearchxmlStardog
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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