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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Bangdb vs. Hazelcast vs. Neo4j

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonNeo4j  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphA widely adopted in-memory data gridScalable, ACID-compliant graph database designed with a high-performance distributed cluster architecture, available in self-hosted and cloud offerings
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Key-value storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.16
Rank#338  Overall
#47  Document stores
#32  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score5.46
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Key-value stores
Score44.89
Rank#21  Overall
#1  Graph DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbbangdb.comhazelcast.comneo4j.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdocs.bangdb.comhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docsneo4j.com/­docs
DeveloperAmazonSachin Sinha, BangDBHazelcastNeo4j, Inc.
Initial release2007201220082007
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 20215.3.6, November 20235.20, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoGPL version3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC, C++JavaJava, Scala
Server operating systemshostedLinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinux infoCan also be used server-less as embedded Java database.
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free and schema-optional
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesyes
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.noyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategy
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesyes infopluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Lucene
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL like support with command line toolSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
Neo4j-OGM infoObject Graph Mapper
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data Neo4j
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
.Net
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesyes infoUser defined Procedures and Functions
Triggersnoyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yes infoEventsyes infovia event handler
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmShardingyes using Neo4j Fabric
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)yes infoReplicated MapCausal Clustering using Raft protocol infoavailable in in Enterprise Version only
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmCausal and Eventual Consistency configurable in Causal Cluster setup
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes, run db with in-memory only modeyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)yes (enterprise version only)Role-based access controlUsers, roles and permissions. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)
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Specific characteristicsNeo4j delivers graph technology that has been battle tested for performance and scale...
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Competitive advantagesNeo4j is the market leader, graph database category creator, and the most widely...
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Typical application scenariosReal-Time Recommendations Master Data Management Identity and Access Management Network...
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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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