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System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. Apache Drill vs. Cassandra vs. RDF4J vs. ToroDB

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NameAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonCassandra  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparison
ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
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 accessRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Document store
Relational DBMS
Wide column storeRDF storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS infostarting with release V5
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.23
Rank#307  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score101.89
Rank#12  Overall
#1  Wide column stores
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websitecambridgesemantics.com/­anzographdrill.apache.orgcassandra.apache.orgrdf4j.orggithub.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationdocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmdrill.apache.org/­docscassandra.apache.org/­doc/­latestrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperCambridge SemanticsApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation infoApache top level project, originally developped by FacebookSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.8Kdata
Initial release20182012200820042016
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 2Open Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportschema-freeschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemasschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
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)no
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
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Python
C++C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesuser defined functionsnoyes
Triggersnonoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"noneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication in MPP-Clusterselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possiblenoneSource-replica replication
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
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infonot needed in graphsnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyes
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 objectnoAccess rights for users and roles
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AnzoGraph DBApache DrillCassandraRDF4J infoformerly known as SesameToroDB
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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