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DBMS > Amazon Neptune vs. Apache Impala vs. Blazegraph vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. H2GIS

System Properties Comparison Amazon Neptune vs. Apache Impala vs. Blazegraph vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. H2GIS

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NameAmazon Neptune  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.
DescriptionFast, reliable graph database built for the cloudAnalytic DBMS for HadoopHigh-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.Spatial extension of H2
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Key-value store
Wide column store
Spatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.58
Rank#112  Overall
#9  Graph DBMS
#5  RDF stores
Score14.03
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.77
Rank#222  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score3.58
Rank#92  Overall
#14  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score0.05
Rank#372  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­neptuneimpala.apache.orgblazegraph.comcloud.google.com/­bigtablewww.h2gis.org
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­neptune/­developer-resourcesimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlwiki.blazegraph.comcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docswww.h2gis.org/­docs/­home
DeveloperAmazonApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaBlazegraphGoogleCNRS
Initial release20172013200620152013
Current release4.1.0, June 20222.1.5, March 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoextended commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languageC++JavaJava
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoRDF literal typesnoyes
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 indexesnoyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSPARQL is used as query languagenoyes
APIs and other access methodsOpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyesnoyes infobased on H2
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingShardingnone
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 factoryesInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesyes infobased on H2
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in graphsnoyes infoRelationships in Graphsnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDAtomic single-row operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
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.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)yes infobased on H2

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