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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. H2GIS vs. TinkerGraph

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonDatastax Enterprise  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreScalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualizationDataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the always-on, scalable data platform built on Apache Cassandra and designed for hybrid Cloud. DSE integrates graph, search, analytics, administration, developer tooling, and monitoring into a unified platform.Spatial extension of H2A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelKey-value storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Wide column storeSpatial DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.29
Rank#303  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#14  RDF stores
Score5.93
Rank#56  Overall
#4  Wide column stores
Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#345  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbcambridgesemantics.com/­anzographwww.datastax.com/­products/­datastax-enterprisewww.h2gis.orgtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmdocs.datastax.comwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­home
DeveloperAmazonCambridge SemanticsDataStaxCNRS
Initial release20072018201120132009
Current release2.3, January 20216.8, April 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree trial version availablecommercialOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJava
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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 indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallynoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQLyesno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIApache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
Proprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin infowith DSE Graph
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++
Java
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaGroovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions and aggregatesnoyes infobased on H2no
Triggersnonoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationAutomatic shardingSharding infono "single point of failure"nonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication in MPP-Clusterconfigurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computingyes infobased on H2none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoKerberos/HDFS data loadingyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate Consistency in MPP-ClusterImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency infoconsistency level can be individually decided with each write operation
Immediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infonot needed in graphsnoyesyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)no
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users can be defined per objectyes infobased on H2no
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Amazon SimpleDBAnzoGraph DBDatastax EnterpriseH2GISTinkerGraph
Specific characteristicsDataStax Enterprise is scale-out data infrastructure for enterprises that need to...
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Competitive advantagesSupporting the following application requirements: Zero downtime - Built on Apache...
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Typical application scenariosApplications that must be massively and linearly scalable with 100% uptime and able...
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Key customersCapital One, Cisco, Comcast, eBay, McDonald's, Microsoft, Safeway, Sony, UBS, and...
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Market metricsAmong the Forbes 100 Most Innovative Companies, DataStax is trusted by 5 of the top...
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Licensing and pricing modelsAnnual subscription
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