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DBMS > Amazon Neptune vs. Apache Druid vs. Apache Impala vs. H2GIS vs. Quasardb

System Properties Comparison Amazon Neptune vs. Apache Druid vs. Apache Impala vs. H2GIS vs. Quasardb

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NameAmazon Neptune  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFast, reliable graph database built for the cloudOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataAnalytic DBMS for HadoopSpatial extension of H2Distributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeRelational DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score2.29
Rank#113  Overall
#9  Graph DBMS
#5  RDF stores
Score3.25
Rank#90  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score12.45
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­neptunedruid.apache.orgimpala.apache.orgwww.h2gis.orgquasar.ai
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­neptune/­developer-resourcesdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homedoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperAmazonApache Software Foundation and contributorsApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaCNRSquasardb
Initial release20172012201320132009
Current release29.0.1, April 20244.1.0, June 20223.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoLGPL 3.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++JavaC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Unix
LinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes infointeger and binary
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL for queryingSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsOpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBCJava.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyes infobased on H2no
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingnoneSharding infoconsistent hashing
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.yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesselectable replication factoryes infobased on H2Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in graphsnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infowith encyption-at-restyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess 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 systemAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and Kerberosyes infobased on H2Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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