DBMS > Amazon Neptune vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. MySQL vs. Postgres-XL vs. YTsaurus

System Properties Comparison Amazon Neptune vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. MySQL vs. Postgres-XL vs. YTsaurus

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Name

Description

Fast, reliable graph database built for the cloud

A RDF storage and query DBMS, shipped as an optional-use component of the Apache Jena framework

Widely used open source RDBMS

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

RDF store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	3.75
Rank	#84	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#340	Overall
	#45	Document stores
	#50	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/neptune

jena.apache.org/documentation/tdb/index.html

www.mysql.com

www.postgres-xl.org

ytsaurus.tech

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/neptune/developer-resources

jena.apache.org/documentation/tdb/index.html

dev.mysql.com/doc

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Yandex

Initial release

2017

2000

1995

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2023

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

8.4.0, April 2024

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

Ubuntu

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

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.

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

OpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java

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

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

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.

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

MVCC

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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 control via Jena Security

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access Control Lists

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