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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. FeatureBase vs. Neo4j vs. Snowflake vs. Spark SQL

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonFeatureBase  Xexclude from comparisonNeo4j  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraReal-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.Scalable, ACID-compliant graph database designed with a high-performance distributed cluster architecture, available in self-hosted and cloud offeringsCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.06
Rank#353  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#309  Overall
#139  Relational DBMS
Score44.46
Rank#23  Overall
#1  Graph DBMS
Score121.33
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websiteblueflood.iowww.featurebase.comneo4j.comwww.snowflake.comspark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikidocs.featurebase.comneo4j.com/­docsdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmlspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperRackspaceMolecula and Pilosa Open Source ContributorsNeo4j, Inc.Snowflake Computing Inc.Apache Software Foundation
Initial release20132017200720142014
Current release2022, May 20225.19, April 20243.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL version3, commercial licenses availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Neo4j Aura: Neo4j’s fully managed cloud service: The zero-admin, always-on graph database for cloud developers.
Implementation languageJavaGoJava, ScalaScala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Linux
macOS
Linux infoCan also be used server-less as embedded Java database.
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemepredefined schemeyesschema-free and schema-optionalyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnonoyes infopluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Luceneno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL queriesnoyesSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTgRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
Neo4j-OGM infoObject Graph Mapper
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data Neo4j
TinkerPop 3
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
.Net
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoUser defined Procedures and Functionsuser defined functionsno
Triggersnonoyes infovia event handlerno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraShardingyes using Neo4j Fabricyesyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandrayesCausal Clustering using Raft protocol infoavailable in in Enterprise Version onlyyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Causal and Eventual Consistency configurable in Causal Cluster setup
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes infoRelationships in graphsyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, using Linux fsyncyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers, roles and permissions. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationno
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BluefloodFeatureBaseNeo4jSnowflakeSpark SQL
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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