DBMS > AgensGraph vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Amazon Neptune vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Sadas Engine

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Amazon Neptune vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Sadas Engine

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Name

Description

Multi-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQL

Hosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

Fast, reliable graph database built for the cloud

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.17
Rank	#320	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS
	#143	Relational DBMS

Score	70.06
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	2.20
Rank	#113	Overall
	#9	Graph DBMS
	#5	RDF stores

Score	1.41
Rank	#153	Overall
	#71	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#159	Relational DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

aws.amazon.com/neptune

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

www.sadasengine.com

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

aws.amazon.com/neptune/developer-resources

docs.heavy.ai

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Amazon

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

2016

2012

2017

2016

2006

Current release

2.1, December 2018

5.10, January 2022

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++ and CUDA

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

depending on used data model

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

RESTful HTTP API

OpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

Sharding

none

Sharding

Round robin

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-availability zones high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicas within a single region. Global database clusters consists of a primary write DB cluster in one region, and up to five secondary read DB clusters in different regions. Each secondary region can have up to 16 reader instances.

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and region

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with encyption-at-rest

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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