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DBMS > Amazon Neptune vs. jBASE vs. PlanetScale vs. PostGIS vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Amazon Neptune vs. jBASE vs. PlanetScale vs. PostGIS vs. Transbase

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NameAmazon Neptune  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFast, reliable graph database built for the cloudA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareScalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of VitessSpatial extension of PostgreSQLA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Multivalue DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.20
Rank#119  Overall
#9  Graph DBMS
#5  RDF stores
Score1.41
Rank#159  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#151  Overall
#70  Relational DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­neptunewww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbaseplanetscale.compostgis.netwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­neptune/­developer-resourcesdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9planetscale.com/­docspostgis.net/­documentationwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperAmazonRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)PlanetScaleTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20171991202020051987
Current release5.73.4.2, February 2024Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageGoCC and C++
Server operating systemshostedAIX
Linux
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptionalyesyesyes
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.noyesyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICyes infowith proprietary extensionsyesyes
APIs and other access methodsOpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyes infoproprietary syntaxuser defined functionsyes
Triggersnoyesyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQL
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.yesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infobased on PostgreSQLSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in graphsnoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID at shard levelACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infowith encyption-at-restyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights can be defined down to the item levelUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesyes infobased on PostgreSQLfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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