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DBMS > Amazon Neptune vs. Drizzle vs. Memcached vs. Postgres-XL vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Neptune vs. Drizzle vs. Memcached vs. Postgres-XL vs. WakandaDB

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NameAmazon Neptune  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionFast, reliable graph database built for the cloudMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.In-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresWakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial 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
Score18.08
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#356  Overall
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­neptunewww.memcached.orgwww.postgres-xl.orgwakanda.github.io
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­neptune/­developer-resourcesgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikiwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationwakanda.github.io/­doc
DeveloperAmazonDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalWakanda SAS
Initial release2017200820032014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2012
Current release7.2.4, September 20121.6.27, May 202410 R1, October 20182.7.0 (AprilĀ 29, 2019), April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++CCC++, JavaScript
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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.noyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsnoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionno
APIs and other access methodsOpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin
JDBCProprietary protocolADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C++
Java
PHP
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononouser defined functionsyes
Triggersnono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.noyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnonehorizontal partitioningnone
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.Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
none infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallitynone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in graphsyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID infoMVCCACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infowith encyption-at-restyesnoyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Pluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes

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