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System Properties Comparison Amazon Neptune vs. Blueflood vs. CrateDB vs. Ehcache vs. Faircom DB

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NameAmazon Neptune  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom DB infoformerly c-treeACE  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFast, reliable graph database built for the cloudScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraDistributed Database based on LuceneA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsNative high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Time Series DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Key-value storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.29
Rank#113  Overall
#9  Graph DBMS
#5  RDF stores
Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score0.71
Rank#227  Overall
#37  Document stores
#5  Spatial DBMS
#16  Search engines
#19  Time Series DBMS
#9  Vector DBMS
Score4.64
Rank#68  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score0.29
Rank#304  Overall
#43  Key-value stores
#136  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­neptuneblueflood.iocratedb.comwww.ehcache.orgwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-db
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­neptune/­developer-resourcesgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikicratedb.com/­docswww.ehcache.org/­documentationdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.html
DeveloperAmazonRackspaceCrateTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGFairCom Corporation
Initial release20172013201320091979
Current release3.10.0, March 2022V12, November 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercial infoRestricted, free version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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CrateDB Cloud: a distributed SQL database that spreads data and processing across an elastic cluster of shared nothing nodes. CrateDB Cloud enables data insights at scale on Microsoft Azure, AWS and Google Cloud Platform.
Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaANSI C, C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
All Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator supportAll OS with a Java VMAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows infoeasily portable to other OSs
Data schemeschema-freepredefined schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeschema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnonoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilitynoyes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsOpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin
HTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API
JCacheADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.NET
Erlang
Go infocommunity maintained client
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) infocommunity maintained client
Perl infocommunity maintained client
PHP
Python
R
Ruby infocommunity maintained client
Scala infocommunity maintained client
Java.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functions (Javascript)noyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++
Triggersnononoyes infoCache Event Listenersyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on CassandraShardingSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerFile partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding infoCustomizable business rules for table partitioning
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.selectable replication factor infobased on CassandraConfigurable replication on table/partition-levelyes infoby using Terracotta Serveryes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).
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
Eventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level
Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in graphsnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono infounique row identifiers can be used for implementing an optimistic concurrency control strategyyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourcetunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infowith encyption-at-restyesyesyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachYes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memory
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)norights management via user accountsnoFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for files
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Amazon NeptuneBluefloodCrateDBEhcacheFaircom DB infoformerly c-treeACE
Specific characteristicsThe enterprise database for time series, documents, and vectors. Distributed - Native...
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Competitive advantagesResponse time in milliseconds: e ven for complex ad-hoc queries. Massive scaling...
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Typical application scenarios​ IoT: accelerate your IIoT projects with CrateDB, delivering real-time analytics...
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Key customersAcross all continents, CrateDB is used by companies of all sizes to meet the most...
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Market metricsThe CrateDB open source project was started in 2013 Honorable Mention in 2021 Gartner®...
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Licensing and pricing modelsSee CrateDB pricing >
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