DBMS > Amazon Neptune vs. OpenEdge vs. OpenTenBase vs. Snowflake vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison Amazon Neptune vs. OpenEdge vs. OpenTenBase vs. Snowflake vs. TigerGraph

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Name

Description

Fast, reliable graph database built for the cloud

Application development environment with integrated database management system

An enterprise-level distributed HTAP open source database based on PostgreSQL

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

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Score	2.29
Rank	#113	Overall
	#9	Graph DBMS
	#5	RDF stores

Score	3.45
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#370	Overall
	#156	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	1.80
Rank	#138	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/neptune

www.progress.com/openedge

github.com/OpenTenBase/OpenTenBase
www.opentenbase.org

www.snowflake.com

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/neptune/developer-resources

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

docs.opentenbase.org
docs.opentenbase.org/en

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

Amazon

Progress Software Corporation

OpenAtom Foundation, previously Tencent

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2017

1984

2014

2017

Current release

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

2.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD-3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

OpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin

JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

C
Go
Java
PHP
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Sharding

yes

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.

Source-replica replication

yes

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

Relationships in graphs

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

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

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

Users and groups

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Role-based access control

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