DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Amazon Neptune vs. CockroachDB vs. PostGIS vs. SAP Adaptive Server

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Amazon Neptune vs. CockroachDB vs. PostGIS vs. SAP Adaptive Server

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Name

Description

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

Fast, reliable graph database built for the cloud

CockroachDB is a distributed database architected for modern cloud applications. It is wire compatible with PostgreSQL and backed by a Key-Value Store, which is either RocksDB or a purpose-built derivative, called Pebble.

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Score	74.45
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

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

Score	5.73
Rank	#58	Overall
	#34	Relational DBMS

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	35.09
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

aws.amazon.com/neptune

www.cockroachlabs.com

postgis.net

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

aws.amazon.com/neptune/developer-resources

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

postgis.net/documentation

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

Developer

Amazon

Cockroach Labs

SAP, Sybase

Initial release

2012

2017

2015

2005

1987

Current release

24.1.0, May 2024

3.4.2, February 2024

16.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

Open Source

GPL v2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

dynamic schema

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, wire compatible with PostgreSQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

OpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Java and Transact-SQL

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

all tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFT

yes

based on PostgreSQL

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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 using RAFT

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

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.

User concepts

Access control

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

Role-based access control

yes

based on PostgreSQL

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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