DBMS > Amazon Neptune vs. Riak KV vs. SAP HANA vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Neptune vs. Riak KV vs. SAP HANA vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

Fast, reliable graph database built for the cloud

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Key-value store

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

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	2.20
Rank	#119	Overall
	#9	Graph DBMS
	#5	RDF stores

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/neptune

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/neptune/developer-resources

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

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Amazon

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

SAP

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2017

2009

2010

2020

Current release

3.2.0, December 2022

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

OpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Erlang

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

yes

Sharding

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.

selectable replication factor

yes

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

links between data sets can be stored

yes

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

yes, using Riak Security

yes

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