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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. RocksDB vs. Sphinx

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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

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

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	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	5.98
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

altibase.com

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

rocksdb.org

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

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

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

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Altibase

Cambridge Semantics

Facebook, Inc.

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

1999

2018

2013

2001

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

2.3, January 2021

8.11.4, April 2024

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

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

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

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

C++ API
Java API

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

C++
Java
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

user defined functions and aggregates

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Kerberos/HDFS data loading

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in MPP-Cluster

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not needed in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

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

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