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System Properties Comparison Amazon Neptune vs. BigchainDB vs. GeoMesa vs. JaguarDB vs. RDFox

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NameAmazon Neptune  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFast, reliable graph database built for the cloudBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Document storeSpatial DBMSKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score2.29
Rank#113  Overall
#9  Graph DBMS
#5  RDF stores
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#381  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­neptunewww.bigchaindb.comwww.geomesa.orgwww.jaguardb.comwww.oxfordsemantic.tech
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­neptune/­developer-resourcesbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmldocs.oxfordsemantic.tech
DeveloperAmazonCCRi and othersDataJaguar, Inc.Oxford Semantic Technologies
Initial release20172016201420152017
Current release5.0.0, May 20243.3 July 20236.0, Septermber 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languagePythonScalaC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesC++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes infoRDF schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersno
APIs and other access methodsOpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingdepending on storage layerSharding
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 factordepending on storage layerMulti-source replicationreplication via a shared file system
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layerEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in graphsnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infowith encyption-at-restyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layernoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)yesyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagerights management via user accountsRoles, resources, and access types

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