Neptune vs Oxigraph
Neptune is a multiple database; Oxigraph is a rdf database. Neptune (2017-11, Proprietary, C++) ranks #14 this month; Oxigraph (2020-08, Apache-2.0 OR MIT, Rust) ranks #13.
| Attribute | Neptune | Oxigraph |
|---|---|---|
| At a glance | ||
| Rank | #14 | #13 |
| Score | 61.1 | 61.3 |
| GitHub stars | — | 2k |
| Popularity | 61.0 | 63.7 |
| Activity | 60.9 | 64.7 |
| Community | 61.8 | 53.3 |
| Research | 60.4 | 62.8 |
| Fundamentals | ||
| Description | A fully managed graph database service from AWS supporting both property graph and RDF models. Available as Neptune Database (for transactional workloads) and Neptune Analytics (for analytical queries). | An RDF triple store written in Rust and built on RocksDB. Available as a standalone server, embeddable library, and via Python and JavaScript bindings. |
| Vendor | Amazon Web Services | Oxigraph Community |
| Model | Multiple | RDF |
| Kind | database | database |
| Category | Enterprise | Emerging |
| First released | 2017-11 | 2020-08 |
| Status | active | active |
| License | Proprietary | Apache-2.0 OR MIT |
| Written in | C++ | Rust |
| Query languages | Gremlin, SPARQL, openCypher | SPARQL |
| gdotv support | yes | yes |
Feature scores — not surveyed for Oxigraph
| Feature | Neptune | Oxigraph |
|---|---|---|
| Community & Business | ||
| Active development | ✓ | — |
| Commercial support | ✓ | — |
| Live community | ✓ | — |
| Open Source | · | — |
| Pricing | ✓ | — |
| Trendiness | ✓ | — |
| Deployment | ||
| Containerization | · | — |
| Work as dedicated instance | ✓ | — |
| Work as embedded | · | — |
| Testing in-memory version | · | — |
| Platform | ||
| Operating on Linux | ✓ | — |
| Operating on Windows | · | — |
| SaaS offering | ✓ | — |
| Operations | ||
| Automatic updates | ✓ | — |
| Client side caching | ✓ | — |
| Data versioning support | · | — |
| Live backups | ✓ | — |
| Distribution | ||
| Cluster Re-balancing | · | — |
| Data Distribution | · | — |
| High-Availability | ✓ | — |
| Query Distribution | 0.5 | — |
| Replication support | ✓ | — |
| Developer Experience | ||
| Data types defined | 0.5 | — |
| Logging/Auditing | ✓ | — |
| Object-Graph Mapper | · | — |
| Reactive programming | ✓ | — |
| Documentation up-to-date | ✓ | — |
| Binary protocol | ✓ | — |
| CLI | ✓ | — |
| GUI | ✓ | — |
| Data Model | ||
| Multi-database | · | — |
| Graph-native data | ✓ | — |
| REST API | ✓ | — |
| Query Language | ✓ | — |
| Transactions | ||
| Granular locking | ✓ | — |
| Multiple isolation levels | ✓ | — |
| Read committed transaction | ✓ | — |
| Transaction support | ✓ | — |
| Schema & Security | ||
| Constraints | ✓ | — |
| Schema support | 0.5 | — |
| Secondary indexes | ✓ | — |
| Server side procedures | · | — |
| Triggers | · | — |
| Authentication | ✓ | — |
| Authorization | ✓ | — |
| Data encryption | ✓ | — |
Links
- Neptune · website · full profile
- Oxigraph · website · github · full profile