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System Properties Comparison Amazon Neptune vs. Hazelcast vs. HugeGraph vs. Netezza vs. Oracle

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Name

Description

Fast, reliable graph database built for the cloud

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

Widely used RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Score	2.20
Rank	#119	Overall
	#9	Graph DBMS
	#5	RDF stores

Score	5.97
Rank	#57	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Score	9.06
Rank	#46	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/neptune

hazelcast.com

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

www.oracle.com/database

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/neptune/developer-resources

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

docs.oracle.com/en/database

Developer

Amazon

Hazelcast

Baidu

IBM

Oracle

Initial release

2017

2008

2018

2000

1980

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

0.9

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS
Unix

Linux

included in appliance

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

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

the object must implement a serialization strategy

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

also supports composite index and range index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

OpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Groovy
Java
Python

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

yes

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

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.

yes

Replicated Map

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via hugegraph-spark

yes

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

edges in graph

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

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

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Role-based access control

Users, roles and permissions

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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