DBMS > Amazon Neptune vs. Postgres-XL vs. ReductStore vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Neptune vs. Postgres-XL vs. ReductStore vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

Fast, reliable graph database built for the cloud

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

Designed to manage unstructured time-series data efficiently, providing unique features such as storing time-stamped blobs with labels, customizable data retention policies, and a straightforward FIFO quota system.

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	0.43
Rank	#260	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#384	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/neptune

www.postgres-xl.org

github.com/reductstore
www.reduct.store

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/neptune/developer-resources

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

www.reduct.store/docs

Developer

Amazon

ReductStore LLC

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2017

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2023

2018

Current release

10 R1, October 2018

1.9, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

Business Source License 1.1

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, Rust

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

OpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin

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

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

none

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

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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 execution of operations

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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