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DBMS > AnzoGraph DB vs. BigchainDB vs. Heroic vs. Splice Machine vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. BigchainDB vs. Heroic vs. Splice Machine vs. Titan

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NameAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
DescriptionScalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualizationBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and SparkTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Document storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
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Score0.23
Rank#307  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.54
Rank#250  Overall
#114  Relational DBMS
Websitecambridgesemantics.com/­anzographwww.bigchaindb.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicsplicemachine.comgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationdocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestspotify.github.io/­heroicsplicemachine.com/­how-it-worksgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperCambridge SemanticsSpotifySplice MachineAurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release20182016201420142012
Current release2.3, January 20213.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.nonoyesno
APIs and other access methodsApache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Python
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesnoyes infoJavayes
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingShardingShardingShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioningyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication in MPP-Clusterselectable replication factoryesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsKerberos/HDFS data loadingnonoYes, via Full Spark Integrationyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency in MPP-ClusterEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infonot needed in graphsnonoyesyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesyesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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