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System Properties Comparison Amazon Neptune vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. SiteWhere

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NameAmazon Neptune  Xexclude from comparisonAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  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 virtualizationA horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMS
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
Score2.84
Rank#100  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­neptunecambridgesemantics.com/­anzographcloud.google.com/­spannergithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­neptune/­developer-resourcesdocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmcloud.google.com/­spanner/­docssitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperAmazonCambridge SemanticsGoogleSiteWhere
Initial release2017201820172010
Current release2.3, January 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree trial version availablecommercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageJava
Server operating systemshostedLinuxhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyespredefined scheme
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 indexesnonoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.yes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011no
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
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC infoAt present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++
Java
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions and aggregatesno
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic shardingShardingSharding infobased on HBase
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-ClusterMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.selectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoKerberos/HDFS data loadingyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflowno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in MPP-ClusterImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in graphsno infonot needed in graphsyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integrityno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID infoStrict serializable isolationno
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.yesnono
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 based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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