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DBMS > Amazon Aurora vs. Amazon Neptune vs. Galaxybase vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. Amazon Neptune vs. Galaxybase vs. RocksDB

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NameAmazon Aurora  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon Neptune  Xexclude from comparisonGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by AmazonFast, reliable graph database built for the cloudScalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Graph DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.84
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score2.20
Rank#113  Overall
#9  Graph DBMS
#5  RDF stores
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#97  Overall
#16  Key-value stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­rds/­auroraaws.amazon.com/­neptunegalaxybase.comrocksdb.org
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­AmazonRDS/­latest/­AuroraUserGuide/­CHAP_Aurora.htmlaws.amazon.com/­neptune/­developer-resourcesgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wiki
DeveloperAmazonAmazonChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司Facebook, Inc.
Initial release2015201720172013
Current releaseNov 20, November 20219.4.0, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC and JavaC++
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinuxLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freeStrong typed schemaschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin
Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Go
Java
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined procedures and functionsno
Triggersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-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
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoRelationships in graphsyes infoRelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infowith encyption-at-restyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Role-based access controlno

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