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System Properties Comparison Amazon Neptune vs. Datomic vs. EJDB vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

Fast, reliable graph database built for the cloud

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

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

Score	1.66
Rank	#144	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/neptune

www.datomic.com

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/neptune/developer-resources

docs.datomic.com

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

Developer

Amazon

Cognitect

Softmotions

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2017

2012

2011

Current release

1.0.7075, December 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

server-less

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

OpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin

RESTful HTTP API

in-process shared library

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Clojure
Java

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

Triggers

By using transaction functions

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

none

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.

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

none

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

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with encyption-at-rest

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

recommended only for testing and development

User concepts

Access control

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

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