DBMS > Amazon Neptune vs. Graph Engine vs. OpenEdge vs. Riak TS vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Amazon Neptune vs. Graph Engine vs. OpenEdge vs. Riak TS vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

Fast, reliable graph database built for the cloud

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.20
Rank	#113	Overall
	#9	Graph DBMS
	#5	RDF stores

Score	0.56
Rank	#241	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#34	Key-value stores

Score	3.69
Rank	#78	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#318	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/neptune

www.graphengine.io

www.progress.com/openedge

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/neptune/developer-resources

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Amazon

Microsoft

Progress Software Corporation

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2017

2010

1984

2015

2014

Current release

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

.NET and C

Erlang

Server operating systems

hosted

.NET

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes, limited

yes

APIs and other access methods

OpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Erlang

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Sharding

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.

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

links between datasets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with encyption-at-rest

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

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)

Users and groups

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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