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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. BigObject vs. GridDB

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSScalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualizationAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesScalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big Data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.00
Rank#194  Overall
#91  Relational DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#302  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score0.13
Rank#342  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Score2.02
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Websitealtibase.comcambridgesemantics.com/­anzographbigobject.iogriddb.net
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmdocs.bigobject.iodocs.griddb.net
DeveloperAltibaseCambridge SemanticsBigObject, Inc.Toshiba Corporation
Initial release1999201820152013
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20232.3, January 20215.1, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercial infofree trial version availablecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++C++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
LinuxLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Linux
Data schemeyesSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestamp
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92SPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.SQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Apache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
C++
Java
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsuser defined functions and aggregatesLuano
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic shardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication in MPP-ClusternoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoKerberos/HDFS data loadingnoConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobs
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in MPP-ClusternoneImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containers
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infonot needed in graphsyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID at container level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and rolesnoAccess rights for users can be defined per database
More information provided by the system vendor
AltibaseAnzoGraph DBBigObjectGridDB
Specific characteristicsGridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Competitive advantages1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Typical application scenariosFactory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Key customersDenso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metricsGitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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