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DBMS > Amazon Neptune vs. OpenSearch vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Neptune vs. OpenSearch vs. YottaDB

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NameAmazon Neptune  Xexclude from comparisonOpenSearch  Xexclude from comparisonYottaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFast, reliable graph database built for the cloudA distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache LuceneA fast and solid embedded Key-value store
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Search engine
Vector DBMS
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSRelational DBMS infousing the Octo plugin
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.13
Rank#111  Overall
#9  Graph DBMS
#5  RDF stores
Score17.38
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Search engines
#2  Vector DBMS
Score0.20
Rank#311  Overall
#46  Key-value stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­neptunegithub.com/­opensearch-project
opensearch.org
yottadb.com
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­neptune/­developer-resourcesopensearch.org/­docs/­latestyottadb.com/­resources/­documentation
DeveloperAmazonThe OpenSearch Software FoundationYottaDB, LLC
Initial release201720212001
Current release2.19, February 2025
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoAGPL 3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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STACKIT OpenSearch offers OpenSearch in a managed version in enterprise grade, 100% GDPR-compliant, for a wide range of applications like analytics, website search, offering scalability and fast data access.
Implementation languageJavaC
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMDocker
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesno
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.nono
Secondary indexesnoyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageby using the Octo plugin
APIs and other access methodsOpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
PostgreSQL wire protocol infousing the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby infoElasticsearch client
C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes
Triggersnoyes infoby using the 'percolation' feature
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding
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.yesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnooptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infowith encyption-at-restyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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