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DBMS > Amazon Neptune vs. dBASE vs. Galaxybase vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Lovefield

System Properties Comparison Amazon Neptune vs. dBASE vs. Galaxybase vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Lovefield

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NameAmazon Neptune  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFast, reliable graph database built for the clouddBase was one of the first databases with a development environment on PC's. Its latest version dBase V is still sold as dBase classic, which needs a DOS Emulation. The up-to-date product is dBase plus.Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSGraph DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score2.29
Rank#113  Overall
#9  Graph DBMS
#5  RDF stores
Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#377  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#309  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­neptunewww.dbase.comgalaxybase.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storegoogle.github.io/­lovefield
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­neptune/­developer-resourceswww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasewww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storegithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.md
DeveloperAmazonAsthon TateChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司IBMGoogle
Initial release20171979201720172014
Current releasedBASE 2019, 2019Nov 20, November 20212.02.1.12, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC and JavaC and C++JavaScript
Server operating systemshostedDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
LinuxLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari
Data schemeschema-freeyesStrong typed schemayesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 indexesnoyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder pattern
APIs and other access methodsOpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
dBase proprietary IDEGo
Java
Python
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.user defined procedures and functionsyesno
TriggersnononoUsing read-only observers
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingShardingnone
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.noneActive-active shard replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in graphsyesyes infoRelationships in graphsnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesNo - written data is immutableyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infowith encyption-at-restyesyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infousing MemoryDB
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users and rolesRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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