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System Properties Comparison Amazon Neptune vs. Fauna vs. Spark SQL vs. SpatiaLite

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NameAmazon Neptune  Xexclude from comparisonFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFast, reliable graph database built for the cloudFauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score2.29
Rank#113  Overall
#9  Graph DBMS
#5  RDF stores
Score1.55
Rank#151  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­neptunefauna.comspark.apache.org/­sqlwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­neptune/­developer-resourcesdocs.fauna.comspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmlwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperAmazonFauna, Inc.Apache Software FoundationAlessandro Furieri
Initial release2017201420142008
Current release3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20235.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnono
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Implementation languageScalaScalaC++
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
server-less
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes
APIs and other access methodsOpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnono
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingyes, utilizing Spark Corenone
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 replicationnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in graphsyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infowith encyption-at-restyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Identity management, authentication, and access controlnono

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