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System Properties Comparison Amazon Neptune vs. Hive vs. Memcached vs. TerarkDB

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NameAmazon Neptune  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFast, reliable graph database built for the clouddata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSKey-value storeKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.29
Rank#113  Overall
#9  Graph DBMS
#5  RDF stores
Score59.76
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score18.08
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­neptunehive.apache.orgwww.memcached.orggithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­neptune/­developer-resourcescwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homegithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikibytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperAmazonApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release2017201220032016
Current release3.1.3, April 20221.6.27, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoBSD licensecommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaCC++
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnono
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.nono
Secondary indexesnoyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnono
APIs and other access methodsOpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Proprietary protocolC++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnonenone
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.selectable replication factornone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallitynone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in graphsnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infowith encyption-at-restyesnoyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users, groups and rolesyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolno

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