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System Properties Comparison Amazon Neptune vs. HBase vs. SAP HANA vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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Name

Description

Fast, reliable graph database built for the cloud

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Distributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.29
Rank	#113	Overall
	#9	Graph DBMS
	#5	RDF stores

Score	27.97
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#348	Overall
	#151	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/neptune

hbase.apache.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/argodb

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/neptune/developer-resources

hbase.apache.org/book.html

help.sap.com/hana

docs.transwarp.cn/#/documents-support/docs?category=ARGODB

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

SAP

Transwarp

Initial release

2017

2008

2010

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

OpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

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.

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with encyption-at-rest

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)

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

yes

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