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System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. Amazon Neptune vs. Amazon Redshift vs. InfluxDB

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Name

Description

Fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database service

Fast, reliable graph database built for the cloud

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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Score	1.91
Rank	#131	Overall
	#24	Document stores

Score	2.29
Rank	#113	Overall
	#9	Graph DBMS
	#5	RDF stores

Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	24.39
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/documentdb

aws.amazon.com/neptune

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/documentdb/resources

aws.amazon.com/neptune/developer-resources

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

Developer

Amazon

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Initial release

2019

2017

2012

2013

Current release

2.7.6, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)

OpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicas

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

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-document operations

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

Depending on used storage engine

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

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

simple rights management via user accounts

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