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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Neo4j vs. OrientDB vs. RavenDB vs. TDengine

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonNeo4j  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  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 ScioreScalable, ACID-compliant graph database designed with a high-performance distributed cluster architecture, available in self-hosted and cloud offeringsMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document DatabaseTime Series DBMS and big data platform
Primary database modelKey-value storeGraph DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Document storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score44.89
Rank#21  Overall
#1  Graph DBMS
Score3.25
Rank#89  Overall
#16  Document stores
#6  Graph DBMS
#13  Key-value stores
Score2.84
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbneo4j.comorientdb.orgravendb.netgithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbneo4j.com/­docswww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.htmlravendb.net/­docsdocs.tdengine.com
DeveloperAmazonNeo4j, Inc.OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAPHibernating RhinosTDEngine, previously Taos Data
Initial release20072007201020102019
Current release5.20, May 20243.2.29, March 20245.4, July 20223.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version3, commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availableOpen Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJava, ScalaJavaC#C
Server operating systemshostedLinux infoCan also be used server-less as embedded Java database.
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free and schema-optionalschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")schema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnoyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyes infopluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Luceneyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language, no joinsSQL-like query language (RQL)Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIBolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
Neo4j-OGM infoObject Graph Mapper
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data Neo4j
TinkerPop 3
Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoUser defined Procedures and FunctionsJava, Javascriptyesno
Triggersnoyes infovia event handlerHooksyesyes, via alarm monitoring
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationyes using Neo4j FabricShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesCausal Clustering using Raft protocol infoavailable in in Enterprise Version onlyMulti-source replicationMulti-source replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono infocould be achieved with distributed queriesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Causal and Eventual Consistency configurable in Causal Cluster setup
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode
Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in graphsyes inforelationship in graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDACIDACID, Cluster-wide transaction available
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Users, roles and permissions. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurableAuthorization levels configured per client per databaseyes
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Amazon SimpleDBNeo4jOrientDBRavenDBTDengine
Specific characteristicsNeo4j delivers graph technology that has been battle tested for performance and scale...
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TDengine™ is a next generation data historian purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and...
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Competitive advantagesNeo4j is the market leader, graph database category creator, and the most widely...
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High Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
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Typical application scenariosReal-Time Recommendations Master Data Management Identity and Access Management Network...
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TDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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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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TDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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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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TDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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