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DBMS > Amazon Neptune vs. Cachelot.io vs. Faircom DB vs. FoundationDB vs. mSQL

System Properties Comparison Amazon Neptune vs. Cachelot.io vs. Faircom DB vs. FoundationDB vs. mSQL

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NameAmazon Neptune  Xexclude from comparisonCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom DB infoformerly c-treeACE  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.
DescriptionFast, reliable graph database built for the cloudIn-memory caching systemNative high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Key-value storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.29
Rank#113  Overall
#9  Graph DBMS
#5  RDF stores
Score0.04
Rank#388  Overall
#62  Key-value stores
Score0.29
Rank#304  Overall
#43  Key-value stores
#136  Relational DBMS
Score1.06
Rank#185  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#85  Relational DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#169  Overall
#76  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­neptunecachelot.iowww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-dbgithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbhughestech.com.au/­products/­msql
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­neptune/­developer-resourcesdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.htmlapple.github.io/­foundationdb
DeveloperAmazonFairCom CorporationFoundationDBHughes Technologies
Initial release20172015197920131994
Current releaseV12, November 20206.2.28, November 20204.4, October 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoSimplified BSD Licensecommercial infoRestricted, free version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree licenses can be provided
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++ANSI C, C++C++C
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows infoeasily portable to other OSs
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,schema-free infosome layers support schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structuresno infosome layers support typingyes
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 indexesnonoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensionssupported in specific SQL layer onlyA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers
APIs and other access methodsOpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin
Memcached protocolADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++in SQL-layer onlyno
Triggersnonoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneFile partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding infoCustomizable business rules for table partitioningShardingnone
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.noneyes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).yesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction
Linearizable consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in graphsnoyesin SQL-layer onlyno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnotunable from ACID to Eventually ConsistentACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infowith encyption-at-restnoYes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memoryyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)noFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for filesnono

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