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DBMS > Neo4j vs. Trino vs. YTsaurus

System Properties Comparison Neo4j vs. Trino vs. YTsaurus

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NameNeo4j  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 offeringsFast 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 DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument 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
Score5.34
Rank#60  Overall
#34  Relational DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#306  Overall
#45  Document stores
#45  Key-value stores
Websiteneo4j.comtrino.ioytsaurus.tech
Technical documentationneo4j.com/­docstrino.io/­broadcast
trino.io/­docs/­current
ytsaurus.tech/­docs/­en
DeveloperNeo4j, Inc.Trino Software FoundationYandex
Initial release20072012 info2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL2023
Current release5.23, August 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL version3, commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache License, Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageJava, ScalaJavaC++
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-optionalyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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 Lucenedepending on connected data-source
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesYQL, 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 Functionsyes, depending on connected data-source
Triggersyes infovia event handlerno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes using Neo4j Fabricdepending on connected data-sourceSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesCausal Clustering using Raft protocol infoavailable in in Enterprise Version onlydepending on connected data-sourceyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemCausal and Eventual Consistency configurable in Causal Cluster setup
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode
depending on connected data-source
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDdepending on connected data-sourceACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesdepending on connected data-sourceyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers, roles and permissions. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)SQL standard access controlAccess Control Lists
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9 April 2025

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27 March 2025

72: Keeping the lake clean
17 March 2025

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3 March 2025

71: Fake it real good
27 February 2025

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