DBMS > Google Cloud Firestore vs. NCache vs. Neo4j vs. Quasardb vs. Stardog
System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Firestore vs. NCache vs. Neo4j vs. Quasardb vs. Stardog
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| Name | Google Cloud Firestore Xexclude from comparison | NCache Xexclude from comparison | Neo4j Xexclude from comparison | Quasardb Xexclude from comparison | Stardog Xexclude from comparison | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Description | Cloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products. | NCache is a 100% .NET / .NET Core Open Source in-memory distributed cache. | Open source graph database | Distributed, high-performance timeseries database | Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Primary database model | Document store | Key-value store | Graph DBMS | Time Series DBMS | Graph DBMS RDF store | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Secondary database models | Document store Search engine  Using distributed Lucene | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Website | firebase.google.com/products/firestore | www.alachisoft.com/ncache | neo4j.com | quasardb.net | www.stardog.com | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Technical documentation | firebase.google.com/docs/firestore | www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs | neo4j.com/docs | doc.quasardb.net | www.stardog.com/docs | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Developer | Alachisoft | Neo4j, Inc. | quasardb | Stardog-Union | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Initial release | 2017 | 2005 | 2007 | 2009 | 2010 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Current release | 5.0, May 2019 | 4.2.2, January 2021 | 3.1, January 2019 | 7.3.0, May 2020 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| License Commercial or Open Source | commercial | Open Source Enterprise Edition available | Open Source GPL version3, commercial licenses available | commercial Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses | commercial 60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service | yes | no | no | no | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Implementation language | C#, .NET, .NET Core | Java, Scala | C++ | Java | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Server operating systems | hosted | Linux Windows | Linux Can also be used server-less as embedded Java database. OS X Solaris Windows | BSD Linux OS X Windows | Linux macOS Windows | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Data scheme | schema-free | schema-free | schema-free and schema-optional | schema-free | schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Typing predefined data types such as float or date | yes | partial Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter | yes | yes integer and binary | yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| XML support Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT. | no | no | no | no Import/export of XML data possible | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Secondary indexes | yes | yes | yes pluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Lucene | yes with tags | yes supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| SQL Support of SQL | no | SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency. | no | SQL-like query language | Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| APIs and other access methods | Android gRPC (using protocol buffers) API iOS JavaScript API RESTful HTTP API | IDistributedCache JCache LINQ Proprietary native API | Bolt protocol Cypher query language Java API Neo4j-OGM Object Graph MapperRESTful HTTP API Spring Data Neo4j TinkerPop 3 | HTTP API | GraphQL query language HTTP API Jena RDF API OWL RDF4J API Sesame REST HTTP Protocol SNARL SPARQL Spring Data Stardog Studio TinkerPop 3 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Supported programming languages | Go Java JavaScript JavaScript (Node.js) Objective-C Python | .Net .Net Core C# Java Visual Basic.NET | .Net Clojure Elixir Go Groovy Haskell Java JavaScript Perl PHP Python Ruby Scala | .Net C C# C++ Go Java JavaScript (Node.js) PHP Python R | .Net Clojure Groovy Java JavaScript Python Ruby | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Server-side scripts Stored procedures | yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions | no support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR | yes User defined Procedures and Functions | no | user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Triggers | yes, with Cloud Functions | yes Notifications | yes via event handler | no | yes via event handlers | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes | Sharding | yes | none | Sharding consistent hashing | none | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes | Multi-source replication | yes, with selectable consistency level | Causal Clustering using Raft protocol available in in Enterprise Version only | Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor | Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods | Using Cloud Dataflow | yes | no | with Hadoop integration | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system | Immediate Consistency | Eventual Consistency Immediate Consistency Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology | Causal and Eventual Consistency configurable in Causal Cluster setup Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode | Immediate Consistency | Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Foreign keys Referential integrity | no | no | yes Relationships in graphs | no | yes relationships in graphs | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data | yes | optimistic locking and pessimistic locking | ACID | ACID | ACID | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Durability Support for making data persistent | yes | yes | yes | yes by using LevelDB | yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only. | yes | yes Transient mode | yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| User concepts Access control | Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth. | Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator) | Users, roles and permissions. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos) | Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail | Access rights for users and roles | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Specific characteristics | NCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache... » more | Neo4j is a native graph database platform that is built to store, query, analyze... » more | High-performance , high-speed, fully integrated timeseries database Seamlessly combines... » more | Stardog is an Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform, uniquely combining graph storage... » more | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Competitive advantages | NCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,... » more | Neo4j database is the only transactional database that combines everything you need... » more | High performance in a cost-effective small package Real-time results for even large... » more | Stardog provides a full featureset to aid in data integration for your complex data.... » more | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Typical application scenarios | NCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare... » more | Real-Time Recommendations Master Data Management Identity and Access Management Network... » more | Tick database Predictive maintenance Pre-deal checks Large scale monitoring » more | Stardog is frequently used for: Anti-money laundering & fraud monitoring Customer... » more | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Key customers | Bank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,... » more | Over 300 commercial customers and over 750 startups use Neo4j. Flagship customers... » more | Large EU investment banks US based hedge funds Orolia Tellmeplus » more | Bosch, Dow Jones, Elsevier, Ericsson, Morgan Stanley, NASA, NIH, Nokia, Salesforce,... » more | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Market metrics | Market Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005. » more | Neo4j boasts the world's largest graph database ecosystem with more than a 15 million... » more | Has been running in very demanding production environments since 2013 Rapid adoption... » more | Stardog's technology is based on ground-breaking research by our founders cited 10,000+... » more | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Licensing and pricing models | NCache Open Source is free on an as-is basis without any support. NCache Enterprise... » more | GPL v3 license that can be used all the places where you might use MySQL. Neo4j Commercial... » more | Community edition limited to 2 nodes and 16 GiB of storage per node available for... » more | A fully-featured 60-day Trial license is available for those testing Stardog; contact... » more | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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