DBMS > Amazon Neptune vs. EsgynDB vs. Snowflake vs. SpaceTime vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison Amazon Neptune vs. EsgynDB vs. Snowflake vs. SpaceTime vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

Description

Fast, reliable graph database built for the cloud

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/neptune

www.esgyn.cn

www.snowflake.com

www.mireo.com/spacetime

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/neptune/developer-resources

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Amazon

Esgyn

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Mireo

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2017

2015

2014

2020

2008

Current release

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

hosted

Linux

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

yes

APIs and other access methods

OpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

Fixed-grid hypercubes

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.

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

yes

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

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)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

yes

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