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DBMS > Amazon Neptune vs. FoundationDB vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. OpenEdge vs. Solr

System Properties Comparison Amazon Neptune vs. FoundationDB vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. OpenEdge vs. Solr

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NameAmazon Neptune  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.
DescriptionFast, reliable graph database built for the cloudOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Document store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Wide column storeRelational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.20
Rank#119  Overall
#9  Graph DBMS
#5  RDF stores
Score1.03
Rank#190  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#89  Relational DBMS
Score4.48
Rank#75  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score3.51
Rank#86  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score42.91
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­neptunegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tableswww.progress.com/­openedgesolr.apache.org
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­neptune/­developer-resourcesapple.github.io/­foundationdbdocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestsolr.apache.org/­resources.html
DeveloperAmazonFoundationDBMicrosoftProgress Software CorporationApache Software Foundation
Initial release20172013201219842006
Current release6.2.28, November 2020OpenEdge 12.2, March 20209.5.0, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++Java
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infosome layers support schemasschema-freeyesyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno infosome layers support typingyesyesyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typing
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.nonoyesyes
Secondary indexesnononoyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnosupported in specific SQL layer onlynoyes infoclose to SQL 92Solr Parallel SQL Interface
APIs and other access methodsOpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language).Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoin SQL-layer onlynoyesJava plugins
Triggersnononoyesyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4Sharding
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.yesyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.Source-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononospark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in graphsin SQL-layer onlynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDoptimistic lockingACIDoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infowith encyption-at-restyesyesyesyes
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)noAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signaturesUsers and groupsyes

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