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DBMS > Amazon Neptune vs. InterSystems Caché vs. MariaDB vs. RavenDB vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison Amazon Neptune vs. InterSystems Caché vs. MariaDB vs. RavenDB vs. Riak KV

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NameAmazon Neptune  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonMariaDB  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionFast, reliable graph database built for the cloudA multi-model DBMS and application serverMySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document DatabaseDistributed, fault tolerant key-value store
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument storeKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.17
Rank#113  Overall
#9  Graph DBMS
#5  RDF stores
Score82.70
Rank#15  Overall
#10  Relational DBMS
Score2.70
Rank#99  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score3.67
Rank#75  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­neptunewww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachemariadb.com infoSite of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org infoSite of MariaDB Foundation
ravendb.net
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­neptune/­developer-resourcesdocs.intersystems.commariadb.com/­kb/­en/­libraryravendb.net/­docswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperAmazonInterSystemsMariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server) infoThe lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL
Hibernating RhinosOpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release201719972009 infoFork of MySQL, which was first released in 199520102009
Current release2018.1.4, May 202011.5.2, August 20245.4, July 20223.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription availableOpen Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise edition
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C#Erlang
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows infoColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freedepending on used data modelyes infoDynamic columns are supportedschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnono
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.noyesyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL-like query language (RQL)no
APIs and other access methodsOpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
C++
Java
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
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 proceduresnoyesyes infoPL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3yesErlang
Triggersnoyesyesyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneseveral options for horizontal partitioning and ShardingShardingSharding 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.Source-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in graphsyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage enginenono infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID infonot for MyISAM storage engineACID, Cluster-wide transaction availableno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infowith encyption-at-restyesyes infonot for in-memory storage engineyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infowith MEMORY storage engine
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users, groups and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAuthorization levels configured per client per databaseyes, using Riak Security
More information provided by the system vendor
Amazon NeptuneInterSystems CachéMariaDBRavenDBRiak KV
Specific characteristicsMariaDB is the most powerful open source relational database – modern SQL and JSON...
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Competitive advantagesMariaDB Servers have many features unavailable in other open source relational databases....
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Typical application scenariosWeb, SaaS and Cloud operational applications that require high availability, scalability...
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Key customersDeutsche Bank, DBS Bank, Nasdaq, Red Hat, ServiceNow, Verizon and Walgreens Featured...
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Market metricsMariaDB is the default database in the LAMP stack supplied by Red Hat and SUSE Linux,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsMariaDB plc subscriptions cover our free, open source database, Community Server,...
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