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System Properties Comparison Amazon Neptune vs. Apache Druid

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Name

Description

Fast, reliable graph database built for the cloud

Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality data

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	2.17
Rank	#112	Overall
	#9	Graph DBMS
	#5	RDF stores

Score	2.88
Rank	#92	Overall
	#49	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/neptune

druid.apache.org

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/neptune/developer-resources

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Initial release

2017

2012

Current release

30.0.0, June 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache license v2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-less columns are supported

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

APIs and other access methods

OpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

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.

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and system

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