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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Neo4j vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Neo4j vs. SQream DB

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonNeo4j  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.A multi-model DBMS and application serverScalable, 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 workloads
Primary database modelWide column storeTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.31
Rank#297  Overall
#11  Wide column stores
Score0.08
Rank#366  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score44.89
Rank#21  Overall
#1  Graph DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#224  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storewww.hawkular.orgwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cacheneo4j.comsqream.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestorewww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidedocs.intersystems.comneo4j.com/­docsdocs.sqream.com
DeveloperAlibabaCommunity supported by Red HatInterSystemsNeo4j, Inc.SQream Technologies
Initial release20162014199720072017
Current release2018.1.4, May 20205.20, May 20242022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL version3, commercial licenses availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, ScalaC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux infoCan also be used server-less as embedded Java database.
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freedepending on used data modelschema-free and schema-optionalyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes infopluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Luceneno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIHTTP REST.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
Neo4j-OGM infoObject Graph Mapper
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data Neo4j
TinkerPop 3
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
.Net
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesyes infoUser defined Procedures and Functionsuser defined functions in Python
Triggersnoyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyesyes infovia event handlerno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infobased on Cassandranoneyes using Neo4j Fabrichorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replicationCausal Clustering using Raft protocol infoavailable in in Enterprise Version onlynone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyCausal and Eventual Consistency configurable in Causal Cluster setup
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes infoRelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsnoACIDACIDACID
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.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensnoAccess rights for users, groups and rolesUsers, roles and permissions. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)
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Competitive advantagesNeo4j is the market leader, graph database category creator, and the most widely...
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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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