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DBMS > Amazon Neptune vs. HyperSQL vs. OpenEdge vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison Amazon Neptune vs. HyperSQL vs. OpenEdge vs. Postgres-XL

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NameAmazon Neptune  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFast, reliable graph database built for the cloudMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBApplication development environment with integrated database management systemBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.82
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Graph DBMS
#5  RDF stores
Score4.30
Rank#83  Overall
#45  Relational DBMS
Score3.53
Rank#94  Overall
#49  Relational DBMS
Score0.56
Rank#253  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­neptunehsqldb.orgwww.progress.com/­openedgewww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­neptune/­developer-resourceshsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmldocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperAmazonProgress Software Corporation
Initial release2017200119842014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current release2.7.2, June 2023OpenEdge 12.2, March 202010 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infobased on BSD licensecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaC
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyes infoclose to SQL 92yes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsOpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language).Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava, SQLyesuser defined functions
Triggersnoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonehorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4horizontal partitioning
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.noneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in graphsyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infowith encyption-at-restyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers and groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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