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System Properties Comparison Amazon Neptune vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Ehcache vs. NCache vs. OpenEdge

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Name

Description

Fast, reliable graph database built for the cloud

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Trend Chart

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

Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	4.64
Rank	#68	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	0.96
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	3.45
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/neptune

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.ehcache.org

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

www.progress.com/openedge

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/neptune/developer-resources

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.ehcache.org/documentation

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

Developer

Amazon

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Alachisoft

Progress Software Corporation

Initial release

2017

2012

2009

2005

1984

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

5.3.3, April 2024

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

yes

close to SQL 92

APIs and other access methods

OpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin

JDBC
ODBC

JCache

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Notifications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

yes

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

by using Terracotta Server

yes, with selectable consistency level

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with encyption-at-rest

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

Users and groups

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