DBMS > Amazon Neptune vs. Amazon Redshift vs. OpenEdge vs. Qdrant vs. Realm

System Properties Comparison Amazon Neptune vs. Amazon Redshift vs. OpenEdge vs. Qdrant vs. Realm

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Description

Fast, reliable graph database built for the cloud

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Primary database model

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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	3.51
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	1.16
Rank	#175	Overall
	#6	Vector DBMS

Score	7.60
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/neptune

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.progress.com/openedge

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

realm.io

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/neptune/developer-resources

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

qdrant.tech/documentation

realm.io/docs

Developer

Amazon

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Progress Software Corporation

Qdrant

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Initial release

2017

2012

1984

2021

2014

Current release

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean

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

Keywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

close to SQL 92

APIs and other access methods

OpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin

JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

Supported programming languages

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Sharding

none

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

Source-replica replication

Collection-level replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency, tunable consistency

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

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

In-Memory realm

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

Users and groups

Key-based authentication

yes

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