DBMS > Amazon Neptune vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. NSDb vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Neptune vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. NSDb vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

Fast, reliable graph database built for the cloud

Scalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualization

Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Key-value store
Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

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

Score	0.23
Rank	#307	Overall
	#24	Graph DBMS
	#13	RDF stores

Score	3.26
Rank	#92	Overall
	#13	Key-value stores
	#8	Wide column stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/neptune

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

cloud.google.com/bigtable

nsdb.io

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/neptune/developer-resources

docs.cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph/userdoc/home.htm

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

nsdb.io/Architecture

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Amazon

Cambridge Semantics

Google

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2017

2018

2015

2017

2013

Current release

2.3, January 2021

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Scala

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

hosted

Linux
macOS

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

OpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin

Apache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C++
Java
Python

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Automatic sharding

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

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.

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

Internal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zones

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Kerberos/HDFS data loading

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in MPP-Cluster

Immediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

not needed in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic single-row operations

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with encyption-at-rest

yes

Using Apache Lucene

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)

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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