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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. EXASOL vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. GraphDB vs. GreptimeDB

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonGraphDB infoformer name: OWLIM  Xexclude from comparisonGreptimeDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.A horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.Enterprise-ready RDF and graph database with efficient reasoning, cluster and external index synchronization support. It supports also SQL JDBC access to Knowledge Graph and GraphQL over SPARQL.An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiency
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score1.76
Rank#139  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#100  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
Score3.25
Rank#91  Overall
#7  Graph DBMS
#4  RDF stores
Score0.12
Rank#351  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.exasol.comcloud.google.com/­spannerwww.ontotext.comgreptime.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.exasol.com/­resourcescloud.google.com/­spanner/­docsgraphdb.ontotext.com/­documentationdocs.greptime.com
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeGitHubMedium
DeveloperAmazonExasolGoogleOntotextGreptime Inc.
Initial release20072000201720002022
Current release10.4, October 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial infoSome plugins of GraphDB Workbench are open sourcedOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaRust
Server operating systemshostedhostedAll OS with a Java VM
Linux
OS X
Windows
Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support; RDF shapesschema-free, schema definition possible
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyesyes, supports real-time synchronization and indexing in SOLR/Elastic search/Lucene and GeoSPARQL geometry data indexesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011stored SPARQL accessed as SQL using Apache Calcite through JDBC/ODBCyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC infoAt present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API
GeoSPARQL
GraphQL
GraphQL Federation
Java API
JDBC
RDF4J API
RDFS
RIO
Sail API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL 1.1
gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Java
Lua
Python
R
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C#
Clojure
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnowell-defined plugin interfaces; JavaScript server-side extensibilityPython
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.Multi-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoHadoop integrationyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency, Eventual consistency (configurable in cluster mode per master or individual client request)Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integrityyes infoConstraint checking
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDACID infoStrict serializable isolationACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Default Basic authentication through RDF4J client, or via Java when run with cURL, default token-based in the Workbench or via Rest API, optional access through OpenID or Kerberos single sign-on.Simple rights management via user accounts
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Amazon SimpleDBEXASOLGoogle Cloud SpannerGraphDB infoformer name: OWLIMGreptimeDB
Specific characteristicsOntotext GraphDB is a semantic database engine that allows organizations to build...
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GreptimeDB is a SQL & Python-enabled timeseries database system built from scratch...
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Competitive advantagesGraphDB allows you to link text and data in big knowledge graphs. It’s easy to experiment...
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- Inherits advantages of Rust, such as excellent performance, memory safe, resource...
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Typical application scenariosMetadata enrichment and management, linked data publishing, semantic inferencing...
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For IoT industries, GreptimeDB can seamless integrate with message queues and other...
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Key customers​ GraphDB provides a platform for building next-generation AI and Knowledge Graph...
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Greptime's clients span multiple sectors including IoT, connected vehicles, and energy...
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Market metricsGraphDB is the most utilized semantic triplestore for mission-critical enterprise...
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GreptimeDB has garnered global recognition by topping GitHub trends following its...
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Licensing and pricing modelsGraphDB Free is a non-commercial version and is free to use. GraphDB Enterprise edition...
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GreptimeDB: open source, distributed, cloud-native TSDB; supports Hybrid Time-series...
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