Difference between Amazon Neptune and Amazon SimpleDB
Last Updated :
13 Jul, 2020
1. Amazon Neptune :
Amazon Neptune is a fast, reliable graph database built for the cloud product by Amazon.com. It is part of Amazon Web Services (AWS). It was announced on November 29, 2017. It supports both the open-source Apache TinkerPop Gremlin graph traversal language. It allows the user to encrypt databases using keys created through AWS Key Management Service.
2. Amazon SimpleDB :
It is a hosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. It is Amazon is a web service for running queries on structured data in real-time. This database is written in Erlang by Amazon.com. It has the following features – high availability and flexibility, with little or no administrative burden.
Difference between Amazon Neptune and Amazon SimpleDB :
S.NO. |
Amazon Neptune |
Amazon SimpleDB |
1. |
Developed By Amazon in 2017. |
Developed By Amazon in 2007. |
2. |
It is a fast, reliable graph database built for the cloud product by Amazon.com |
It is a hosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. |
3. |
It supports the ACID property. |
It does not support the ACID property. |
4. |
It provides the concept of Referential Integrity. Hence, there are Foreign Keys. |
It does not provide the concept of Referential Integrity. Hence, no Foreign Keys. |
5. |
Its Primary database model is Graph DBMS and RDF store. |
Its primary database model is the Key-value store. |
6. |
Immediate Consistency is used to ensure consistency in a distributed system. |
Eventual Consistency and Immediate Consistency is used to ensure consistency in a distributed system. |
7. |
It does not support partitioning methods. |
It also does not support partitioning methods but Sharding must be implemented in the application. |
8. |
It supports multi-availability zones high availability. |
It supports replication methods. |
9. |
It supports predefined data types such as float or date. |
It does not support predefined data types such as float or date. |
10. |
It supports secondary indexes. |
It does not support secondary indexes. |
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