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DBMS > AnzoGraph DB vs. Apache Druid vs. Citus vs. Kdb vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. Apache Druid vs. Citus vs. Kdb vs. Postgres-XL

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NameAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  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 dataScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLHigh performance Time Series DBMSBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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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
Score2.15
Rank#117  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score7.71
Rank#49  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitecambridgesemantics.com/­anzographdruid.apache.orgwww.citusdata.comkx.comwww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationdocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.citusdata.comcode.kx.comwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperCambridge SemanticsApache Software Foundation and contributorsKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc
Initial release2018201220102000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 20032014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current release2.3, January 202129.0.1, April 20248.1, December 20183.6, May 201810 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availablecommercial infofree 32-bit versionOpen Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCqC
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
LinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalityyesyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.SQL for queryingyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsSQL-like query language (q)yes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsApache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Python
Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesnouser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.user defined functionsuser defined functions
Triggersnonoyesyes infowith viewsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardinghorizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication in MPP-Clusteryes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsKerberos/HDFS data loadingnonono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency in MPP-ClusterImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infonot needed in graphsnoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnoACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardrights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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AnzoGraph DBApache DruidCitusKdbPostgres-XL
Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
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