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DBMS > AnzoGraph DB vs. Apache Drill vs. Cassandra vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. Apache Drill vs. Cassandra vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

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NameAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonCassandra  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  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 StorageWide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB infoOptimized for write accessElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Document store
Relational DBMS
Wide column storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS infostarting with release V5
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.29
Rank#303  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#14  RDF stores
Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score98.83
Rank#12  Overall
#1  Wide column stores
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Websitecambridgesemantics.com/­anzographdrill.apache.orgcassandra.apache.orgazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics
Technical documentationdocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmdrill.apache.org/­docscassandra.apache.org/­doc/­latestdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics
DeveloperCambridge SemanticsApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation infoApache top level project, originally developped by FacebookMicrosoft
Initial release2018201220082016
Current release2.3, January 20211.20.3, January 20234.1.3, July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
hosted
Data schemeSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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 indexesnonorestricted infoonly equality queries, not always the best performing solutionyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsApache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Python
C++C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
Java
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesuser defined functionsnoTransact SQL
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding, horizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication in MPP-Clusterselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsKerberos/HDFS data loadingyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency in MPP-ClusternoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infonot needed in graphsnonono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesDepending on the underlying data sourceno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesDepending on the underlying data sourceAccess rights for users can be defined per objectyes
More information provided by the system vendor
AnzoGraph DBApache DrillCassandraMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Specific characteristicsApache Cassandra is the leading NoSQL, distributed database management system, well...
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Competitive advantagesNo single point of failure ensures 100% availability . Operational simplicity for...
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Typical application scenariosInternet of Things (IOT), fraud detection applications, recommendation engines, product...
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Key customersApple, Netflix, Uber, ING,, Intuit,Fidelity, NY Times, Outbrain, BazaarVoice, Best...
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Market metricsCassandra is used by 40% of the Fortune 100.
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache license  Pricing for commercial distributions provided by DataStax and available...
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