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System Properties Comparison Amazon Neptune vs. BigchainDB vs. CrateDB vs. Greenplum vs. Tarantool

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NameAmazon Neptune  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonTarantool  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFast, reliable graph database built for the cloudBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsDistributed Database based on LuceneAnalytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database infoA logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.In-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applications
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Document storeDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Spatial DBMS infowith Tarantool/GIS extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.58
Rank#112  Overall
#9  Graph DBMS
#5  RDF stores
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.73
Rank#229  Overall
#37  Document stores
#5  Spatial DBMS
#16  Search engines
#19  Time Series DBMS
#8  Vector DBMS
Score9.23
Rank#47  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score1.67
Rank#150  Overall
#25  Document stores
#25  Key-value stores
#69  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­neptunewww.bigchaindb.comcratedb.comgreenplum.orgwww.tarantool.io
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­neptune/­developer-resourcesbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestcratedb.com/­docsdocs.greenplum.orgwww.tarantool.io/­en/­doc
DeveloperAmazonCratePivotal Software Inc.VK
Initial release20172016201320052008
Current release7.0.0, September 20232.10.0, May 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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CrateDB Cloud: a distributed SQL database that spreads data and processing across an elastic cluster of shared nothing nodes. CrateDB Cloud enables data insights at scale on Microsoft Azure, AWS and Google Cloud Platform.
Implementation languagePythonJavaC and C++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxAll Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator supportLinuxBSD
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesFlexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columns
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesstring, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetime
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.nononoyes infosince Version 4.2no
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilityyesFull-featured ANSI SQL support
APIs and other access methodsOpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Open binary protocol
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.NET
Erlang
Go infocommunity maintained client
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) infocommunity maintained client
Perl infocommunity maintained client
PHP
Python
R
Ruby infocommunity maintained client
Scala infocommunity maintained client
C
Java
Perl
Python
R
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions (Javascript)yesLua, C and SQL stored procedures
Triggersnonoyesyes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingShardingSharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.
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.selectable replication factorConfigurable replication on table/partition-levelSource-replica replicationAsynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level
Immediate ConsistencyCasual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition infowhen using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition infowhen using Raft
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in graphsnonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infounique row identifiers can be used for implementing an optimistic concurrency control strategyACIDACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactions
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes, cooperative multitasking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infowith encyption-at-restyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes, write ahead logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)yesrights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles
More information provided by the system vendor
Amazon NeptuneBigchainDBCrateDBGreenplumTarantool
Specific characteristicsThe enterprise database for time series, documents, and vectors. Distributed - Native...
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Competitive advantagesResponse time in milliseconds: e ven for complex ad-hoc queries. Massive scaling...
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Typical application scenarios​ IoT: accelerate your IIoT projects with CrateDB, delivering real-time analytics...
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Key customersAcross all continents, CrateDB is used by companies of all sizes to meet the most...
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Market metricsThe CrateDB open source project was started in 2013 Honorable Mention in 2021 Gartner®...
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Licensing and pricing modelsSee CrateDB pricing >
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