DBMS > Altibase vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. Apache Druid vs. EsgynDB vs. MariaDB

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. Apache Druid vs. EsgynDB vs. MariaDB

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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

Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality data

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.87
Rank	#200	Overall
	#93	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#302	Overall
	#24	Graph DBMS
	#13	RDF stores

Score	2.85
Rank	#96	Overall
	#50	Relational DBMS
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.15
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Score	83.44
Rank	#15	Overall
	#10	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

druid.apache.org

www.esgyn.cn

mariadb.com

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org

Site of MariaDB Foundation

Technical documentation

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

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

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

Developer

Altibase

Cambridge Semantics

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Esgyn

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server)

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

Initial release

1999

2018

2012

2015

2009

Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

2.3, January 2021

30.0.0, June 2024

11.5.2, August 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

Apache license v2

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++, Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux

Linux
OS X
Unix

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

Data scheme

yes

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

schema-less columns are supported

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

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

SQL for querying

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

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

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

C++
Java
Python

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

user defined functions and aggregates

Java Stored Procedures

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic sharding

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

Sharding

several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Kerberos/HDFS data loading

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in MPP-Cluster

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not needed in graphs

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

with MEMORY storage engine

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and system

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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