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Name

Description

Fast, reliable graph database built for the cloud

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	2.14
Rank	#115	Overall
	#9	Graph DBMS
	#5	RDF stores

Score	17.74
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	3.95
Rank	#73	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/neptune

www.memcached.org

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/neptune/developer-resources

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

Developer

Amazon

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2017

2003

2009

Current release

1.6.27, May 2024

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

OpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin

Proprietary protocol

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

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

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

links between data sets can be stored

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

User concepts

Access control

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

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

yes, using Riak Security

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