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System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Neo4j vs. SiteWhere vs. Speedb

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NameCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonNeo4j  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonSpeedb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionIn-memory caching systemMicrosofts flagship relational DBMSScalable, ACID-compliant graph database designed with a high-performance distributed cluster architecture, available in self-hosted and cloud offeringsM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataAn embeddable, high performance key-value store optimized for write-intensive workloads, which can be used as a drop-in replacement for RocksDB
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.04
Rank#388  Overall
#62  Key-value stores
Score821.56
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Score44.89
Rank#21  Overall
#1  Graph DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Score0.26
Rank#310  Overall
#45  Key-value stores
Websitecachelot.iowww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-serverneo4j.comgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewherewww.speedb.io
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-serverneo4j.com/­docssitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperMicrosoftNeo4j, Inc.SiteWhereSpeedb
Initial release20151989200720102020
Current releaseSQL Server 2022, November 20225.20, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoSimplified BSD Licensecommercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoGPL version3, commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++C++Java, ScalaJavaC++
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
Windows
Linux infoCan also be used server-less as embedded Java database.
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free and schema-optionalpredefined schemeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesno
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 indexesnoyesyes infopluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Lucenenono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnonono
APIs and other access methodsMemcached protocolADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
Neo4j-OGM infoObject Graph Mapper
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data Neo4j
TinkerPop 3
HTTP REST
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
.Net
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Javayes infoUser defined Procedures and Functionsno
Triggersnoyesyes infovia event handler
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonetables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federationyes using Neo4j FabricSharding infobased on HBasehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes, but depending on the SQL-Server EditionCausal Clustering using Raft protocol infoavailable in in Enterprise Version onlyselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyCausal and Eventual Consistency configurable in Causal Cluster setup
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes infoRelationships in graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDnoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentnoyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers, roles and permissions. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)Users with fine-grained authorization conceptno
More information provided by the system vendor
Cachelot.ioMicrosoft SQL ServerNeo4jSiteWhereSpeedb
Specific characteristicsNeo4j delivers graph technology that has been battle tested for performance and scale...
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Speedb is an embedded key-value storage engine for versatile use cases. It was designed...
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Competitive advantagesNeo4j is the market leader, graph database category creator, and the most widely...
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Speedb Open-source rebases on RocksDB's latest versions, with enhanced capabilities...
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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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Open source - Speedb OSS is released under an Apache license and can be found on...
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