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System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. Elasticsearch vs. Interbase vs. KairosDB vs. MySQL

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Name

Description

Scalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualization

A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene

Elasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metric

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Widely used open source RDBMS

Primary database model

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.23
Rank	#307	Overall
	#24	Graph DBMS
	#13	RDF stores

Score	135.35
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	4.61
Rank	#72	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	0.62
Rank	#239	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Website

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

www.mysql.com

Technical documentation

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

www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index.html

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

kairosdb.github.io

dev.mysql.com/doc

Developer

Cambridge Semantics

Elastic

Embarcadero

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Initial release

2018

2010

1984

2013

1995

Current release

2.3, January 2021

8.6, January 2023

InterBase 2020, December 2019

1.2.2, November 2018

8.4.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

Elastic License

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

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.

export as XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

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

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Python

.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

Sharding

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

yes

Interbase Change Views

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Kerberos/HDFS data loading

ES-Hadoop Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency in MPP-Cluster

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Memcached and Redis integration

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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