DBMS > Amazon Neptune vs. Amazon Redshift vs. GeoSpock vs. NuoDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Neptune vs. Amazon Redshift vs. GeoSpock vs. NuoDB

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Name

GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Fast, reliable graph database built for the cloud

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.89
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/neptune

aws.amazon.com/redshift

geospock.com

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/neptune/developer-resources

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

doc.nuodb.com

Developer

Amazon

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

GeoSpock

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Initial release

2017

2012

2013

Current release

2.0, September 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Javascript

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

temporal, categorical

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

yes

APIs and other access methods

OpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Automatic sharding

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

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

Managed transparently by NuoDB

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

tunable commit protocol

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

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

Temporary table

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

Access rights for users can be defined per table

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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