DBMS > AnzoGraph DB vs. Apache Drill vs. MaxDB vs. MySQL vs. ObjectBox

System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. Apache Drill vs. MaxDB vs. MySQL vs. ObjectBox

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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

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Widely used open source RDBMS

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	1.95
Rank	#127	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	2.32
Rank	#112	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Website

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

Technical documentation

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

drill.apache.org/docs

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.objectbox.io

Developer

Cambridge Semantics

Apache Software Foundation

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

ObjectBox Limited

Initial release

2018

2012

1984

1995

2017

Current release

2.3, January 2021

1.20.3, January 2023

7.9.10.12, February 2024

8.4.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Python

C++

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

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

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

user defined functions

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

online/offline synchronization between client and server

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

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

not needed in graphs

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Depending on the underlying data source

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

yes

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