DBMS > Altibase vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

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

Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud Platform

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

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Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

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

Score	4.47
Rank	#76	Overall
	#12	Document stores

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

cloud.google.com/datastore

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

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

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Altibase

Cambridge Semantics

Google

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

1999

2018

2008

2000

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

2.3, January 2021

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

free trial version available

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux

hosted

server-less

Data scheme

yes

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, details here

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

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

SQL-like query language (GQL)

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

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

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

C++
Java
Python

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

user defined functions and aggregates

using Google App Engine

Triggers

yes

Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic sharding

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

Multi-source replication using Paxos

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Kerberos/HDFS data loading

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in MPP-Cluster

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration

Strong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not needed in graphs

yes

via ReferenceProperties or Ancestor paths

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Serializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactions

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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 for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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