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Amazon Neptune vs LadybugDB

Amazon Neptune

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LadybugDB

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FigureAmazon NeptuneLadybugDB
Price from—Free
Free plan—Yes
Free trialYes—
Open source——
WebYesYes
Windows—Yes
macOS—Yes
Linux—Yes
iOS—Yes
Android—Yes
APIYesYes
Self-hosted—Yes
Plans published41
Spec score · Graph Databases7.8 (#17)8.2 (#11)
IntegrationsNeptune documentation describes integrations with AWS Glue, Amazon SageMaker AI, and AWS Lambda.The documentation describes integrations with Snowflake and PostgreSQL, and attaching to DuckDB, SQLite, Iceberg, Delta Lake, and Unity Catalog sources.
ProductAmazon Neptune is a fully managed graph database service for building and running applications that work with connected data.Ladybug is an embedded graph database optimized for complex analytical workloads on very large graphs.

Plans

Amazon Neptune

  • On-demandPrice not published
  • ServerlessPrice not published
  • Database Savings PlansPrice not published
  • Neptune ServerlessPrice not published

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LadybugDB

  • MIT open-source licenseFree

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Amazon Neptune

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LadybugDB

LadybugDB is an embedded columnar graph database for analytical workloads and agentic applications. It uses Cypher with a structured property graph model and can run on disk or in memory; in-memory data is lost when the process ends. Its query engine uses columnar disk storage, vectorized and factorized processing, multi-core parallelism, and join algorithms. Transactions are atomic, durable, and serializable. The project distributes source code and precompiled binaries under the MIT License, which permits commercial and proprietary applications. Imports support Parquet, CSV, JSON, NumPy, Pandas or Polars DataFrames, and PyArrow Tables. Official client APIs are listed for Python, Node.js, Java, Rust, Go, Swift, C, and C++, alongside a command-line interface. Ladybug Explorer provides a browser-based way to query and visualize a database, and the MCP Server exposes a database to LLMs and agents. Extensions cover sources and systems including Azure storage, Delta Lake, DuckDB, Iceberg, PostgreSQL, and vector similarity search. Concurrent access permits one read-write Database object or multiple read-only objects; multiple processes needing writes should use an API server pattern.

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