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System Properties Comparison Amazon Neptune vs. Firebird vs. NCache vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Oracle Rdb

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NameAmazon Neptune  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFast, reliable graph database built for the cloudFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseOpen-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value StoreA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
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#113  Overall
#9  Graph DBMS
#5  RDF stores
Score19.46
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.91
Rank#196  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Score3.07
Rank#86  Overall
#15  Document stores
#11  Key-value stores
#47  Relational DBMS
Score1.04
Rank#184  Overall
#84  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­neptunewww.firebirdsql.orgwww.alachisoft.com/­ncachewww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.html
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­neptune/­developer-resourceswww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualswww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docsdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmlwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.html
DeveloperAmazonFirebird FoundationAlachisoftOracleOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
Initial release20172000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase200520111984
Current release5.0.1, August 20245.3.3, April 202424.1, May 20247.4.1.1, 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoEnterprise Edition availableOpen Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C#, .NET, .NET Core, JavaJava
Server operating systemshostedAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86
HP Open VMS
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyespartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counteroptionalyes
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 indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.SQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes
APIs and other access methodsOpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPSQLno infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLRno
Triggersnoyesyes infoNotificationsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneyesSharding
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 replicationyes, with selectable consistency levelElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyeswith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in graphsyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDoptimistic locking and pessimistic lockingconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)yes, on a single node
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infowith encyption-at-restyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infooff heap cacheno
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 conceptAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)Access rights for users and roles
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Amazon NeptuneFirebirdNCacheOracle NoSQLOracle Rdb
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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