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System Properties Comparison Amazon Neptune vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. OpenEdge vs. SQLite vs. TiDB

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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

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

TiDB is an open source distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	2.29
Rank	#113	Overall
	#9	Graph DBMS
	#5	RDF stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#303	Overall
	#25	Graph DBMS
	#14	RDF stores

Score	3.45
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	4.25
Rank	#74	Overall
	#40	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/neptune

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

www.progress.com/openedge

www.sqlite.org

pingcap.com

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/neptune/developer-resources

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

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

docs.pingcap.com/tidb/stable

Developer

Amazon

Cambridge Semantics

Progress Software Corporation

Dwayne Richard Hipp

PingCAP, Inc.

Initial release

2017

2018

1984

2000

2016

Current release

2.3, January 2021

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

8.1.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Go, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

server-less

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

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

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy

Supported programming languages

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C++
Java
Python

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Automatic sharding

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

none

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

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

Source-replica replication

none

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Kerberos/HDFS data loading

yes

with TiSpark Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in MPP-Cluster

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

not needed in graphs

yes

full support since version 6.6

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

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

Users and groups

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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