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DBMS > Amazon Neptune vs. Kinetica vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Neptune vs. Kinetica vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. SWC-DB

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NameAmazon Neptune  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFast, reliable graph database built for the cloudFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series 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
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score76.78
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#364  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­neptunewww.kinetica.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databasegithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­neptune/­developer-resourcesdocs.kinetica.comdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sql
DeveloperAmazonKineticaMicrosoftAlex Kashirin
Initial release2017201220102020
Current release7.1, August 2021V120.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageC, C++C++C++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxhostedLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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 indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsOpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsTransact SQLno
Triggersnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding
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 replicationyes, with always 3 replicas available
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in graphsyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.yes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users and roles on table levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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