OrientDB vs Neo4j - and an introduction to NoSQL databases

Intro SQL vs NoSQL OrientDB vs Neo4j ?
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Example of a graph [11]

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SELECT name, out(‘ACTS’).title
FROM Person WHERE name = ‘Robin’
START actor=node:Person(name=’Robin’)
MATCH (actor)-[:ACTS_IN]->(movie)
RETURN actor.name, movie.title
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SELECT name, out(‘ACTS’).title
FROM Person WHERE name = ‘Robin’
START actor=node:Person(name=’Robin’)
MATCH (actor)-[:ACTS_IN]->(movie)
RETURN actor.name, movie.title
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SELECT B.location
FROM Customer A, Address B, CustomerAddress C
WHERE A.name = 'Luca' AND B.id = A.id AND B.address = C.id

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SELECT *
FROM Employee A, City B
WHERE A.city = B.id
AND B.name = 'Rome'
SELECT *
FROM Employee
WHERE city.name = 'Rome'
SELECT *
FROM Employee A, City B, Country C,
WHERE A.city = B.id
AND B.country = C.id
AND C.name = 'Italy'
SELECT *
FROM Employee
WHERE city.country.name = 'Italy'
In OrientDB

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SQL Systems/NoSQL-Kategories[14]

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Polyglot persistence

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OrientDB Neo4j
DB type Document Store Graph DBMS Graph DBMS
Licence Open Source (Apache 2.0) Open Source (GPL Version3)/Commercial
Price Free Most expensive Graph DBMS (min. 12k
Dollar/year)
Rank 66 [1] 22 [2]
Portable Yes No
Schema-less, Mixed-mode, Schema-ful [7] Yes, Yes, Yes [5] Yes, -, -
SQL-Support No (SQL-like) No (Cypher)
Server-side scripts Java, JavaScript Server plugins in Java
Trigger Hooks Event Handler
Partitioning Sharding No
Replication Master-Master Master-Slave
means better/more features no clear domination

OrientDB Neo4j
Year 2010 2007
Multiple
databases
Yes No
OrientDB customers Neo4j customers

OrientDB Neo4j
Query Language Easy to learn, intuitive Harder to learn, not so intuitive
Visual access Nearly all settings available Just some
User Trend Increasing Highly increasing
Project state Still many hard changes Some hard changes
Support for code helpings Incredible Fast Normal
Support for requests
(Studio)
1-2 days Not yet tested
Future changes Many planned (e.g. messaging queue) Nothing known to me
means better/more features
no clear domination

Relational model Document model OrientDB document model
Tables Collections Classes and clusters
Rows Documents Documents
Columns Key/Values pairs Key/Value pairs
Joins Not available Links
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Relational model Graph model OrientDB graph model
Tables Vertices and Edges Vertices and Edges set + sub-types
Rows Vertices Vertices
Columns Key/Values pairs Key/Value pairs
Joins Edges Edges
Graph
model
Document
model

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Neo4j

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Intro SQL vs NoSQL OrientDB vs Neo4j OrientDB

Example of inheritance

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