DBMS > Amazon Neptune vs. HugeGraph vs. Postgres-XL vs. SAP IQ

System Properties Comparison Amazon Neptune vs. HugeGraph vs. Postgres-XL vs. SAP IQ

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Name

Description

Fast, reliable graph database built for the cloud

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/neptune

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

www.postgres-xl.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/neptune/developer-resources

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Amazon

Baidu

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2017

2018

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

1994

Current release

0.9

10 R1, October 2018

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Mozilla public license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Unix

Linux
macOS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

also supports composite index and range index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

yes

APIs and other access methods

OpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Groovy
Java
Python

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

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

horizontal partitioning

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

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

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

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

Hadoop integration

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

edges in graph

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

MVCC

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)

Users, roles and permissions

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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