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System Properties Comparison Amazon Neptune vs. Apache Cassandra vs. InfluxDB vs. Qdrant vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

Fast, reliable graph database built for the cloud

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

A high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Document store
RDF store

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Score	2.20
Rank	#113	Overall
	#9	Graph DBMS
	#5	RDF stores

Score	98.94
Rank	#11	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	22.12
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.53
Rank	#145	Overall
	#7	Vector DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#311	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/neptune

cassandra.apache.org

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/neptune/developer-resources

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

qdrant.tech/documentation

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Qdrant

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2017

2008

2013

2021

2018

Current release

5.0-rc1, July 2024

2.7.6, April 2024

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Rust

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

Numbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

Keywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

OpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Sharding

Graph Partitioning

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

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

Collection-level replication

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Eventual Consistency, tunable consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with encyption-at-rest

yes

in-memory journaling

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Depending on used storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Access rights for users can be defined per object

simple rights management via user accounts

Key-based authentication

Role-based access control

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Market metrics

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