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System Properties Comparison Amazon Neptune vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. Apache Impala vs. OrientDB

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NameAmazon Neptune  Xexclude from comparisonAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFast, reliable graph database built for the cloudScalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualizationAnalytic DBMS for HadoopMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument 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
Score0.29
Rank#303  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#14  RDF stores
Score12.45
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score3.25
Rank#89  Overall
#16  Document stores
#6  Graph DBMS
#13  Key-value stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­neptunecambridgesemantics.com/­anzographimpala.apache.orgorientdb.org
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­neptune/­developer-resourcesdocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlwww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.html
DeveloperAmazonCambridge SemanticsApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP
Initial release2017201820132010
Current release2.3, January 20214.1.0, June 20223.2.29, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++Java
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinuxAll OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)
Data schemeschema-freeSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyesschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.SQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language, no joins
APIs and other access methodsOpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin
Apache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
JDBC
ODBC
Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++
Java
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions and aggregatesyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceJava, Javascript
TriggersnononoHooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic shardingShardingSharding
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.Multi-source replication in MPP-Clusterselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoKerberos/HDFS data loadingyes infoquery execution via MapReduceno infocould be achieved with distributed queries
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in MPP-ClusterEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in graphsno infonot needed in graphsnoyes inforelationship in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infowith encyption-at-restyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
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 rolesAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

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