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DBMS > AnzoGraph DB vs. Apache Druid vs. BigchainDB vs. NCache vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. Apache Druid vs. BigchainDB vs. NCache vs. TinkerGraph

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NameAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualizationOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsOpen-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value StoreA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document storeKey-value storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
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
Score3.25
Rank#90  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.96
Rank#195  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Score0.13
Rank#345  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitecambridgesemantics.com/­anzographdruid.apache.orgwww.bigchaindb.comwww.alachisoft.com/­ncachetinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationdocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docs
DeveloperCambridge SemanticsApache Software Foundation and contributorsAlachisoft
Initial release20182012201620052009
Current release2.3, January 202129.0.1, April 20245.3.3, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoEnterprise Edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaPythonC#, .NET, .NET Core, JavaJava
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
LinuxLinux
Windows
Data schemeSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnopartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counteryes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.SQL for queryingnoSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.no
APIs and other access methodsApache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Python
Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesnono infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLRno
Triggersnonoyes infoNotificationsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingyesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication in MPP-Clusteryes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesselectable replication factoryes, with selectable consistency levelnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsKerberos/HDFS data loadingnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency in MPP-ClusterImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infonot needed in graphsnononoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnooptimistic locking and pessimistic lockingno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemyesAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)no
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AnzoGraph DBApache DruidBigchainDBNCacheTinkerGraph
Specific characteristicsNCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
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Competitive advantagesNCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
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Typical application scenariosNCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
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Key customersBank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Market metricsMarket Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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Licensing and pricing modelsNCache Open Source is free on an as-is basis without any support. NCache Enterprise...
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