DBMS > Amazon Neptune vs. Lovefield vs. Machbase Neo vs. Postgres-XL vs. RethinkDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Neptune vs. Lovefield vs. Machbase Neo vs. Postgres-XL vs. RethinkDB

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Name

Description

Fast, reliable graph database built for the cloud

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.20
Rank	#113	Overall
	#9	Graph DBMS
	#5	RDF stores

Score	0.22
Rank	#306	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#348	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#260	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Score	2.58
Rank	#105	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/neptune

google.github.io/lovefield

machbase.com

www.postgres-xl.org

rethinkdb.com

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/neptune/developer-resources

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

machbase.com/dbms

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

rethinkdb.com/docs

Developer

Amazon

Google

Machbase

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Initial release

2017

2014

2013

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2009

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

V8.0, August 2023

10 R1, October 2018

2.4.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

SQL-like query language

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

OpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

range based

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.

none

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

MVCC

Atomic single-document operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with encyption-at-rest

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

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

volatile and lookup table

User concepts

Access control

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

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

users and table-level permissions

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