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DBMS > AnzoGraph DB vs. Apache Drill vs. BigchainDB vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Oracle Berkeley DB

System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. Apache Drill vs. BigchainDB vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Oracle Berkeley DB

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NameAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualizationSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsGoogle's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.Widely used in-process key-value store
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Document store
Relational DBMS
Document storeKey-value store
Wide column store
Key-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.27
Rank#302  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score2.28
Rank#119  Overall
#23  Document stores
#56  Relational DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score3.58
Rank#92  Overall
#14  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score2.52
Rank#114  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Websitecambridgesemantics.com/­anzographdrill.apache.orgwww.bigchaindb.comcloud.google.com/­bigtablewww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.html
Technical documentationdocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmdrill.apache.org/­docsbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docsdocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.html
DeveloperCambridge SemanticsApache Software FoundationGoogleOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle
Initial release20182012201620151994
Current release2.3, January 20211.20.3, January 202318.1.40, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen Source infocommercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languagePythonC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxhostedAIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Data schemeSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonono
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.nonononoyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML edition
Secondary indexesnononoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnonoyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is available
APIs and other access methodsApache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Python
C++Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesuser defined functionsnono
Triggersnononoyes infoonly for the SQL API
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingShardingShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication in MPP-Clusterselectable replication factorInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsKerberos/HDFS data loadingyesnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency in MPP-ClusternoneImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infonot needed in graphsnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoAtomic single-row operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesDepending on the underlying data sourceyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesDepending on the underlying data sourcenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesDepending on the underlying data sourceyesAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)no

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