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System Properties Comparison Amazon Neptune vs. Cassandra vs. OpenEdge vs. SQream DB vs. YDB

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NameAmazon Neptune  Xexclude from comparisonCassandra  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonYDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFast, reliable graph database built for the cloudWide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB infoOptimized for write accessApplication development environment with integrated database management systema GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsA distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Wide column storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS infostarting with release V5
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Score2.29
Rank#113  Overall
#9  Graph DBMS
#5  RDF stores
Score98.83
Rank#12  Overall
#1  Wide column stores
Score3.45
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#224  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Score0.33
Rank#287  Overall
#43  Document stores
#132  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­neptunecassandra.apache.orgwww.progress.com/­openedgesqream.comgithub.com/­ydb-platform/­ydb
ydb.tech
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­neptune/­developer-resourcescassandra.apache.org/­doc/­latestdocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestdocs.sqream.comydb.tech/­en/­docs
DeveloperAmazonApache Software Foundation infoApache top level project, originally developped by FacebookProgress Software CorporationSQream TechnologiesYandex
Initial release20172008198420172019
Current release4.1.3, July 2023OpenEdge 12.2, March 20202022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemshostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnorestricted infoonly equality queries, not always the best performing solutionyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)yes infoclose to SQL 92yesSQL-like query language (YQL)
APIs and other access methodsOpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin
Proprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesuser defined functions in Pythonno
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infono "single point of failure"horizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4horizontal and vertical partitioningSharding
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 factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleSource-replica replicationnoneActive-passive shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in graphsnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users can be defined per objectUsers and groupsAccess rights defined for Yandex Cloud users
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