DBMS > Google Cloud Firestore vs. NCache vs. Neo4j vs. Redis vs. Stardog

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Firestore vs. NCache vs. Neo4j vs. Redis vs. Stardog

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Name

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.

Open source in-memory key-value store

Open source graph database

In-memory data structure store, used as database, cache and message broker info

Redis focuses on performance so most of its design decisions prioritize high performance and very low latencies.

Enterprise Knowledge Graph and graph DBMS with high availability and high performance reasoning

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store

Graph DBMS

Key-value store info

Multiple data types and a rich set of operations, as well as configurable data expiration, eviction and persistence

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Secondary database models

Document store info

with Redis Modules
Graph DBMS info

with Redis Modules
Search engine info

with Redis Modules
Time Series DBMS info

with Redis Modules

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Score	5.68
Rank	#56	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	0.91
Rank	#159	Overall
	#27	Key-value stores

Score	50.56
Rank	#22	Overall
	#1	Graph DBMS

Score	146.23
Rank	#8	Overall
	#1	Key-value stores

Score	0.78
Rank	#167	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS
	#7	RDF stores

Website

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

neo4j.com

redis.io

www.stardog.com

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

neo4j.com/docs

redis.io/documentation

www.stardog.com/docs

Developer

Google

Alachisoft

Neo4j, Inc.

Salvatore Sanfilippo info

Development sponsored by Redis Labs

Stardog-Union

Initial release

2017

2004

2007

2009

2010

Current release

5.0, May 2019

3.5.8, July 2019

5.0.7, November 2019

6.2.3, July 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source info

Apache 2.0

Open Source info

GPL version3, commercial licenses available

Open Source info

BSD 3-Clause, commercial license available

commercial info

60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) info

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

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Implementation language

C#, C++, .NET

Java, Scala

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Windows

Linux

Can also be used server-less as embedded Java database.
OS X
Solaris
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows info

ported and maintained by Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc.

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

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 strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes

yes

XML support info

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

pluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Lucene

yes

with RediSearch module

yes

supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query syntax (OQL) for searching the cache

SPARQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

LINQ
Proprietary protocol

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
Neo4j-OGM info

Object Graph Mapper
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data Neo4j
TinkerPop 3

proprietary protocol info

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

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
C#
Java
Visual Basic.NET

.Net
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic

.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

yes

User defined Procedures and Functions

Lua

user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java

Triggers

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

Notifications

yes

via event handler

yes

via event handlers

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Master-master replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol info

available in in Enterprise Version only

Master-slave replication info

Chained replication is supported
Multi-master replication info

with Redis Enterprise Pack

Master-master replication in HA-Cluster

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Using Cloud Dataflow

yes

Consistency concepts info

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Causal and Eventual Consistency configurable in Causal Cluster setup
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode

Eventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs

Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts info

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

optimistic locking

ACID

Optimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scripts

ACID

Concurrency info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

yes

Durability info

Support for making data persistent

yes

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

yes

In-memory capabilities info

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts info

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.

authentification 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)

Simple password-based access control info

Access control lists and SSL are available in the commercial version

Access rights for users and roles

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Specific characteristics

NCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching for the last 13 years....
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Neo4j is a native graph database platform that is built to store, query, analyze...
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Redis, benchmarked as the world's fastest database, reduces application complexity,...
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Stardog is a knowledge graph platform backed by a performant, scalable graph database....
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Competitive advantages

Ncache is 100% .NET with ASP.NET Session State storage, ASP.NET View State Caching,...
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Neo4j database is the only transactional database that combines everything you need...
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Redis is an in-memory database platform offering native support of wide range of...
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Stardog is uniquely designed to aid in data integration for your complex data. Benefits...
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Typical application scenarios

NCache enables industries and users including users doing: Fraud Detection, Retail...
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Real-Time Recommendations Master Data Management Identity and Access Management Network...
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Redis powers personalization, real-time fraud detection, IoT, e-commerce, real-time...
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Stardog is frequently used for: Anti-money laundering & fraud monitoring Customer...
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Key customers

Bank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Over 300 commercial customers and over 750 startups use Neo4j. Flagship customers...
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Verizon, Vodafone, Atlassian, Trip Advisor, Jet.com, Nokia, Samsung, HTC, Docker,...
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Bosch, Dow Jones, Elsevier, Ericsson, Morgan Stanley, NASA, NIH, Nokia, Salesforce,...
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Market metrics

Market Leader in .NET Distributed Caching for the last 13 years.
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Neo4j boasts the world's largest graph database ecosystem with more than a 15 million...
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Stardog's technology is based on ground-breaking research by our founders cited 10,000+...
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Licensing and pricing models

The NCache Enterprise licensing model is according to the number of nodes and shards...
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GPL v3 license that can be used all the places where you might use MySQL. Neo4j Commercial...
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The licensing model is subscription based. Redis Enterprise Cloud is priced according...
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A fully-featured 60-day Trial license is available for those testing Stardog; contact...
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