DBMS > Amazon Neptune vs. Blueflood vs. GridGain vs. OpenEdge vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Amazon Neptune vs. Blueflood vs. GridGain vs. OpenEdge vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

Fast, reliable graph database built for the cloud

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

Application development environment with integrated database management system

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.29
Rank	#113	Overall
	#9	Graph DBMS
	#5	RDF stores

Score	0.13
Rank	#346	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.55
Rank	#150	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#70	Relational DBMS

Score	3.45
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/neptune

blueflood.io

www.gridgain.com

www.progress.com/openedge

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/neptune/developer-resources

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Amazon

Rackspace

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Progress Software Corporation

SAP

Initial release

2017

2013

2007

1984

2010

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, C++, .Net

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

predefined scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

APIs and other access methods

OpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin

HTTP REST

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

yes

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.

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes (replicated cache)

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

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

Security Hooks for custom implementations

Users and groups

yes

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