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System Properties Comparison Amazon Neptune vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Graphite vs. LevelDB vs. STSdb

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NameAmazon Neptune  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFast, reliable graph database built for the cloudHosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperEmbeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Key-value storeTime Series DBMSKey-value storeKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.29
Rank#113  Overall
#9  Graph DBMS
#5  RDF stores
Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score2.25
Rank#115  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­neptuneaws.amazon.com/­simpledbgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webgithub.com/­google/­leveldbgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­neptune/­developer-resourcesdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbgraphite.readthedocs.iogithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.md
DeveloperAmazonAmazonChris DavisGoogleSTS Soft SC
Initial release20172007200620112011
Current release1.23, February 20214.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSDOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languagePythonC++C#
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
Unix
Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoNumeric data onlynoyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallynonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononono
APIs and other access methodsOpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
Sockets
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononono
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-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.yesnonenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
noneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in graphsnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infolockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infowith encyption-at-restyesyesyes infowith automatic compression on writesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)nonono

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