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DBMS > Amazon Neptune vs. GridGain vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. OpenEdge vs. Qdrant

System Properties Comparison Amazon Neptune vs. GridGain vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. OpenEdge vs. Qdrant

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NameAmazon Neptune  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFast, reliable graph database built for the cloudGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.29
Rank#113  Overall
#9  Graph DBMS
#5  RDF stores
Score1.55
Rank#150  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#70  Relational DBMS
Score76.78
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score3.45
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score1.28
Rank#167  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­neptunewww.gridgain.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databasewww.progress.com/­openedgegithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­neptune/­developer-resourceswww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmldocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqldocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestqdrant.tech/­documentation
DeveloperAmazonGridGain Systems, Inc.MicrosoftProgress Software CorporationQdrant
Initial release20172007201019842021
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.1V12OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetC++Rust
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesNumbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean
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.noyesyesyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyesyes infoclose to SQL 92no
APIs and other access methodsOpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language).Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)Transact SQLyes
Triggersnoyes (cache interceptors and events)yesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal 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.yes (replicated cache)yes, with always 3 replicas availableSource-replica replicationCollection-level replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency, tunable consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in graphsnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
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.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Security Hooks for custom implementationsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers and groupsKey-based authentication

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