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System Properties Comparison Amazon Neptune vs. ArangoDB vs. OpenEdge vs. QuestDB vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

Fast, reliable graph database built for the cloud

Native multi-model DBMS for graph, document, key/value and search. All in one engine and accessible with one query language.

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A high performance open source SQL database for time series data

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	3.32
Rank	#90	Overall
	#15	Document stores
	#5	Graph DBMS
	#12	Key-value stores
	#10	Search engines

Score	3.51
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	2.52
Rank	#109	Overall
	#9	Time Series DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/neptune

arangodb.com

www.progress.com/openedge

questdb.io

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/neptune/developer-resources

docs.arangodb.com

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

questdb.io/docs

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Social network pages

Developer

Amazon

ArangoDB Inc.

Progress Software Corporation

QuestDB Technology Inc

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2017

2012

1984

2014

2000

Current release

3.11.5, November 2023

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial license (Enterprise) available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

automatically recognizes schema within a collection

yes

schema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, double, boolean, list, hash

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL with time-series extensions

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

OpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin

AQL
Foxx Framework
Graph API (Gremlin)
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Java & SpringData
JSON style queries
VelocyPack/VelocyStream

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
C++
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Rust

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

PostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

over HTTP

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

since version 2.0

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)

none

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.

Source-replica replication with configurable replication factor

Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication with eventual consistency

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be done with stored procedures in JavaScript

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

configurable per collection or per write
Immediate Consistency
OneShard (highly available, fault-tolerant deployment mode with ACID semantics)

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID for single-table writes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

through memory mapped files

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

yes

Users and groups

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

Consolidation: As a native multi-model database, can be used as a full blown document...
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High ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Cisco, Barclays, Refinitive, Siemens Mentor, Kabbage, Liaison, Douglas, MakeMyTrip,...
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Market metrics

ArangoDB is the leading native multi-model database with over 11,000 stargazers on...
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Licensing and pricing models

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