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System Properties Comparison Amazon Neptune vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. BigchainDB vs. NCache vs. Sequoiadb

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NameAmazon Neptune  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFast, reliable graph database built for the cloudHosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsOpen-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value StoreNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Key-value storeDocument storeKey-value storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.20
Rank#119  Overall
#9  Graph DBMS
#5  RDF stores
Score1.85
Rank#138  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.94
Rank#195  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Score0.45
Rank#261  Overall
#41  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­neptuneaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.bigchaindb.comwww.alachisoft.com/­ncachewww.sequoiadb.com
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­neptune/­developer-resourcesdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docswww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index
DeveloperAmazonAmazonAlachisoftSequoiadb Ltd.
Initial release20172007201620052013
Current release5.3.3, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoEnterprise Edition availableOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languagePythonC#, .NET, .NET Core, JavaC++
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinuxLinux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonopartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counteryes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regex
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.SQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsOpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin
RESTful HTTP APICLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
proprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLRJavaScript
Triggersnonoyes infoNotificationsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingyesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-availability zones high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicas within a single region. Global database clusters consists of a primary write DB cluster in one region, and up to five secondary read DB clusters in different regions. Each secondary region can have up to 16 reader instances.yesselectable replication factoryes, with selectable consistency levelSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in graphsnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationoptimistic locking and pessimistic lockingDocument is locked during a transaction
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infowith encyption-at-restyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)yesAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)simple password-based access control
More information provided by the system vendor
Amazon NeptuneAmazon SimpleDBBigchainDBNCacheSequoiadb
Specific characteristicsNCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
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Competitive advantagesNCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
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Typical application scenariosNCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
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Key customersBank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Market metricsMarket Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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Licensing and pricing modelsNCache Open Source is free on an as-is basis without any support. NCache Enterprise...
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