DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Amazon Neptune vs. HugeGraph vs. Kdb vs. Oracle

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Amazon Neptune vs. HugeGraph vs. Kdb vs. Oracle

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Name

Description

A real-time data warehousing service that can process petabytes of data with high concurrency and low latency. It is fully compatible with the MySQL protocol.

Fast, reliable graph database built for the cloud

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

High performance Time Series DBMS

Widely used RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Graph DBMS

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Score	0.85
Rank	#207	Overall
	#96	Relational DBMS

Score	2.20
Rank	#119	Overall
	#9	Graph DBMS
	#5	RDF stores

Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Score	7.55
Rank	#53	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS
	#1	Vector DBMS

Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/analyticdb-for-mysql

aws.amazon.com/neptune

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

kx.com

www.oracle.com/database

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/doc-detail/93776.htm

aws.amazon.com/neptune/developer-resources

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

code.kx.com

docs.oracle.com/en/database

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon

Baidu

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

Oracle

Initial release

2017

2018

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

1980

Current release

0.9

3.6, May 2018

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free 32-bit version

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Unix

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

also supports composite index and range index

yes

table attribute 'grouped'

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (q)

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

OpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP
Python

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Groovy
Java
Python

C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

user defined functions

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

with views

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

horizontal partitioning

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

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.

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

similar paradigm used for internal processing

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

edges in graph

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

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

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

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)

Users, roles and permissions

rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

Available regions: America US Virginia US Silicon Valley Asia China Hong Kong India...
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