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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

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiency

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

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Score	0.23
Rank	#297	Overall
	#25	Graph DBMS
	#14	RDF stores

Score	97.61
Rank	#11	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#336	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Website

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

cassandra.apache.org

greptime.com

Technical documentation

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

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

docs.greptime.com

Developer

Cambridge Semantics

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Greptime Inc.

Initial release

2018

2008

2022

Current release

2.3, January 2021

5.0-rc1, July 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Rust

Server operating systems

Linux

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

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

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Python

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

Python

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Kerberos/HDFS data loading

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency in MPP-Cluster

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

not needed in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Simple rights management via user accounts

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