DBMS > AgensGraph vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. TigerGraph

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Name

Description

Multi-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQL

Scalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualization

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.20
Rank	#321	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS
	#143	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#307	Overall
	#24	Graph DBMS
	#13	RDF stores

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	1.83
Rank	#139	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

docs.cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph/userdoc/home.htm

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Cambridge Semantics

Microsoft

Initial release

2016

2018

2014

2017

Current release

2.1, December 2018

2.3, January 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

free trial version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

depending on used data model

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

Apache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

C++
Java
Python

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and aggregates

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

Automatic sharding

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Kerberos/HDFS data loading

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in MPP-Cluster

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not needed in graphs

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Role-based access control

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