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DBMS > Amazon Neptune vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Lovefield vs. OrigoDB vs. Splice Machine

System Properties Comparison Amazon Neptune vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Lovefield vs. OrigoDB vs. Splice Machine

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NameAmazon Neptune  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFast, reliable graph database built for the cloudDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Document storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.29
Rank#113  Overall
#9  Graph DBMS
#5  RDF stores
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#380  Overall
#50  Document stores
#18  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.54
Rank#252  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­neptunewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldorigodb.comsplicemachine.com
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­neptune/­developer-resourcescloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdorigodb.com/­docssplicemachine.com/­how-it-works
DeveloperAmazonIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014GoogleRobert Friberg et alSplice Machine
Initial release2017201020142009 infounder the name LiveDB2014
Current release2.1.12, February 20173.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageErlangJavaScriptC#Java
Server operating systemshostedhostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyes
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.nononono infocan be achieved using .NET
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternnoyes
APIs and other access methodsOpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin
RESTful HTTP/JSON API.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
JavaScript.NetC#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnoyesyes infoJava
TriggersnoyesUsing read-only observersyes infoDomain Eventsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnonehorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar 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.Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonoYes, via Full Spark Integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in graphsnoyesdepending on modelyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infowith encyption-at-restyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyes infoWrite ahead logyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infousing MemoryDByesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users can be defined per databasenoRole based authorizationAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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