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System Properties Comparison Amazon Neptune vs. DataFS vs. Ingres vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

Fast, reliable graph database built for the cloud

All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.

Well established RDBMS

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

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.20
Rank	#119	Overall
	#9	Graph DBMS
	#5	RDF stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#354	Overall
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Score	4.11
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/neptune

newdatabase.com

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/neptune/developer-resources

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

docs.actian.com/ingres

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Amazon

Mobiland AG

Actian Corporation

SAP

Initial release

2017

2018

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2010

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

11.2, May 2022

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

Windows

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

OpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Proprietary Sharding system

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

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.

Ingres Replicator

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

MVCC

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)

Windows-Profile

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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