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System Properties Comparison Amazon Neptune vs. Ignite vs. Lovefield

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Name

Description

Fast, reliable graph database built for the cloud

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.58
Rank	#112	Overall
	#9	Graph DBMS
	#5	RDF stores

Score	3.64
Rank	#89	Overall
	#13	Key-value stores
	#48	Relational DBMS

Score	0.32
Rank	#290	Overall
	#132	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/neptune

ignite.apache.org

google.github.io/lovefield

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/neptune/developer-resources

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

Google

Initial release

2017

2015

2014

Current release

Apache Ignite 2.6

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, Java, .Net

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

OpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

Supported programming languages

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

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 (replicated cache)

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with encyption-at-rest

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Security Hooks for custom implementations

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