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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Datastore vs. Hazelcast vs. Heroic vs. Neo4j vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

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NameGoogle Cloud Datastore  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonNeo4j  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAutomatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud PlatformA widely adopted in-memory data gridTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchScalable, ACID-compliant graph database designed with a high-performance distributed cluster architecture, available in self-hosted and cloud offeringsA drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value storeTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.47
Rank#76  Overall
#12  Document stores
Score5.97
Rank#57  Overall
#6  Key-value stores
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score44.46
Rank#23  Overall
#1  Graph DBMS
Score0.52
Rank#254  Overall
#39  Document stores
Websitecloud.google.com/­datastorehazelcast.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicneo4j.comwww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodb
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­datastore/­docshazelcast.org/­imdg/­docsspotify.github.io/­heroicneo4j.com/­docsdocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodb
DeveloperGoogleHazelcastSpotifyNeo4j, Inc.Percona
Initial release20082008201420072015
Current release5.3.6, November 20235.19, April 20243.4.10-2.10, November 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL version3, commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoGPL Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJava, ScalaC++
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMLinux infoCan also be used server-less as embedded Java database.
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free and schema-optionalschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes, details hereyesyesyesyes
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 strategynono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes infopluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Luceneyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (GQL)SQL-like query languagenonono
APIs and other access methodsgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
Neo4j-OGM infoObject Graph Mapper
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data Neo4j
TinkerPop 3
proprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languages.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
.Net
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresusing Google App Engineyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesnoyes infoUser defined Procedures and FunctionsJavaScript
TriggersCallbacks using the Google Apps Engineyes infoEventsnoyes infovia event handlerno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingyes using Neo4j FabricSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication using Paxosyes infoReplicated MapyesCausal Clustering using Raft protocol infoavailable in in Enterprise Version onlySource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflowyesnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration infoStrong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Causal and Eventual Consistency configurable in Causal Cluster setup
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infovia ReferenceProperties or Ancestor pathsnonoyes infoRelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoSerializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactionsone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitednoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes infovia In-Memory Engine
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Role-based access controlUsers, roles and permissions. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)Access rights for users and roles
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Google Cloud DatastoreHazelcastHeroicNeo4jPercona Server for MongoDB
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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