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System Properties Comparison Amazon Neptune vs. Ehcache vs. OpenEdge vs. Oracle Coherence vs. SAP HANA

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Description

Fast, reliable graph database built for the cloud

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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	#5	RDF stores

Score	4.64
Rank	#68	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	3.45
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	1.97
Rank	#129	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/neptune

www.ehcache.org

www.progress.com/openedge

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/neptune/developer-resources

www.ehcache.org/documentation

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Amazon

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Progress Software Corporation

Oracle

SAP

Initial release

2017

2009

1984

2007

2010

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

14.1, August 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

APIs and other access methods

OpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin

JCache

JDBC
ODBC

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

.Net
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Live Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Sharding

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.

yes

by using Terracotta Server

Source-replica replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

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

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

ACID

configurable

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with encyption-at-rest

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

yes

optionally

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)

Users and groups

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

yes

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