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System Properties Comparison Amazon Neptune vs. BigchainDB vs. EJDB vs. Firebolt vs. HBase

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NameAmazon Neptune  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFast, reliable graph database built for the cloudBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Highly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Document storeDocument storeRelational DBMSWide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.20
Rank#119  Overall
#9  Graph DBMS
#5  RDF stores
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.27
Rank#297  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score1.90
Rank#134  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­neptunewww.bigchaindb.comgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbwww.firebolt.iohbase.apache.org
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­neptune/­developer-resourcesbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mddocs.firebolt.iohbase.apache.org/­book.html
DeveloperAmazonSoftmotionsFirebolt Analytics Inc.Apache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset
Initial release20172016201220202008
Current release2.3.4, January 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoGPLv2commercialOpen Source infoApache version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languagePythonCJava
Server operating systemshostedLinuxserver-lesshostedLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free, schema definition possible
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesoptions to bring your own types, AVRO
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnonoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyesno
APIs and other access methodsOpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
in-process shared library.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes infoCoprocessors in Java
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneSharding
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 factornonedepending on storage layerMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in graphsnono infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infowith encyption-at-restyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)yesnoAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

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