DBMS > Amazon Neptune vs. Faircom EDGE vs. PostGIS vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Amazon Neptune vs. Faircom EDGE vs. PostGIS vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

Fast, reliable graph database built for the cloud

FairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environments

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

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

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.09
Rank	#362	Overall
	#53	Key-value stores
	#155	Relational DBMS

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	35.09
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/neptune

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

postgis.net

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/neptune/developer-resources

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.html

postgis.net/documentation

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Amazon

FairCom Corporation

SAP, Sybase

SAP

Initial release

2017

1979

2005

1987

2010

Current release

V3, October 2020

3.4.2, February 2024

16.0

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

GPL v2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

ANSI SQL queries

yes

APIs and other access methods

OpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

user defined functions

Java and Transact-SQL

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

yes

based on PostgreSQL

horizontal partitioning

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

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

when using SQL

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

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 user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.

yes

based on PostgreSQL

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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