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System Properties Comparison Amazon Neptune vs. Firebird vs. InterSystems Caché vs. PouchDB vs. ScyllaDB

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NameAmazon Neptune  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonScyllaDB  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionFast, reliable graph database built for the cloudFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseA multi-model DBMS and application serverJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBCassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Document storeWide column store
Secondary database modelsDocument storeKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.20
Rank#119  Overall
#9  Graph DBMS
#5  RDF stores
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score4.75
Rank#68  Overall
#5  Wide column stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­neptunewww.firebirdsql.orgwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachepouchdb.comwww.scylladb.com
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­neptune/­developer-resourceswww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.intersystems.compouchdb.com/­guidesdocs.scylladb.com
DeveloperAmazonFirebird FoundationInterSystemsApache Software FoundationScyllaDB
Initial release20172000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase199720122015
Current release5.0.0, January 20242018.1.4, May 20207.1.1, June 2019ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicensecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoOpen Source (AGPL), commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC and C++JavaScriptC++
Server operating systemshostedAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesdepending on used data modelschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infovia viewsyes infocluster global secondary indices
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesnoSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)
APIs and other access methodsOpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Proprietary protocol (CQL) infocompatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
JavaScriptFor CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPSQLyesView functions in JavaScriptyes, Lua
Triggersnoyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding
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.Source-replica replicationSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
selectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possible
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in graphsyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnono infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infowith encyption-at-restyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infoin-memory tables
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Users with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights for users, groups and rolesnoAccess rights for users can be defined per object
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Amazon NeptuneFirebirdInterSystems CachéPouchDBScyllaDB
Specific characteristicsScyllaDB is engineered to deliver predictable performance at scale. It’s adopted...
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Competitive advantagesHighly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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Typical application scenariosScyllaDB is ideal for applications that require high throughput and low latency at...
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Key customersDiscord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
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Market metricsScyllaDB typically offers ~75% total cost of ownership savings, with ~5X higher throughput...
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Licensing and pricing modelsScyllaDB Open Source - free open source software (AGPL) ScyllaDB Enterprise - subscription-based...
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