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System Properties Comparison Amazon Neptune vs. GeoMesa vs. Netezza vs. Newts vs. Quasardb

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NameAmazon Neptune  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFast, reliable graph database built for the cloudGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystemsTime Series DBMS based on CassandraDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Spatial DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series 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
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score9.06
Rank#46  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­neptunewww.geomesa.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­netezzaopennms.github.io/­newtsquasar.ai
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­neptune/­developer-resourceswww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikidoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperAmazonCCRi and othersIBMOpenNMS Groupquasardb
Initial release20172014200020142009
Current release4.0.5, February 20243.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageScalaJavaC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux infoincluded in applianceLinux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes infointeger and binary
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 infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsOpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP REST
Java API
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
Java.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesnono
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonedepending on storage layerShardingSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoconsistent hashing
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.depending on storage layerSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesnowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layerEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in graphsnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infowith encyption-at-restyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layernoyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)yes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptnoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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