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System Properties Comparison Amazon Neptune vs. IBM Cloudant vs. PostGIS vs. Riak KV

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NameAmazon Neptune  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFast, reliable graph database built for the cloudDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBSpatial extension of PostgreSQLDistributed, fault tolerant key-value store
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Document storeSpatial DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes
Secondary database modelsRelational 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
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­neptunewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantpostgis.net
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­neptune/­developer-resourcescloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantpostgis.net/­documentationwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperAmazonIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release2017201020052009
Current release3.4.2, February 20243.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise edition
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnono
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Implementation languageErlangCErlang
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesno
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 indexesnoyesyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesno
APIs and other access methodsOpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptuser defined functionsErlang
Triggersnoyesyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding infono "single point of failure"
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
yes infobased on PostgreSQLselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in graphsnoyesno infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
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.nono
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 databaseyes infobased on PostgreSQLyes, using Riak Security

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