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DBMS > Amazon Neptune vs. Apache Phoenix vs. IRONdb vs. LMDB vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison Amazon Neptune vs. Apache Phoenix vs. IRONdb vs. LMDB vs. Spark SQL

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NameAmazon Neptune  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonLMDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionFast, reliable graph database built for the cloudA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityA high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database librarySpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.20
Rank#119  Overall
#9  Graph DBMS
#5  RDF stores
Score1.97
Rank#126  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score1.99
Rank#125  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­neptunephoenix.apache.orgwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdbspark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­neptune/­developer-resourcesphoenix.apache.orgdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedwww.lmdb.tech/­docspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperAmazonApache Software FoundationCirconus LLC.SymasApache Software Foundation
Initial release20172014201720112014
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019V0.10.20, January 20180.9.32, January 20243.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++CScala
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
Windows
LinuxLinux
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyes
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 indexesnoyesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)noSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsOpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin
JDBCHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl
Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsyes, in Luanono
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenoneyes, utilizing Spark Core
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
Source-replica replication
configurable replication factor, datacenter awarenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoHadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in graphsnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infowith encyption-at-restyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancynonono

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