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System Properties Comparison Amazon Neptune vs. IBM Cloudant vs. OpenEdge vs. RethinkDB

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NameAmazon Neptune  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFast, reliable graph database built for the cloudDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBApplication development environment with integrated database management systemDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Document storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.20
Rank#119  Overall
#9  Graph DBMS
#5  RDF stores
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score3.51
Rank#86  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­neptunewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.progress.com/­openedgerethinkdb.com
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­neptune/­developer-resourcescloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestrethinkdb.com/­docs
DeveloperAmazonIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Progress Software CorporationThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017
Initial release2017201019842009
Current releaseOpenEdge 12.2, March 20202.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnono
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Implementation languageErlangC++
Server operating systemshostedhostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometry
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infoclose to SQL 92no
APIs and other access methodsOpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyes
TriggersnoyesyesClient-side triggers through changefeeds
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4Sharding inforange based
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
Source-replica replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in graphsnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDAtomic single-document operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes infoMVCC based
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.nonono
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 databaseUsers and groupsyes infousers and table-level permissions

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