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System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. Apache Druid vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Infobright vs. SAP IQ

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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

Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality data

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

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Trend Chart

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

Score	3.34
Rank	#88	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.96
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

druid.apache.org

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

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

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Cambridge Semantics

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2018

2012

2010

2005

1994

Current release

2.3, January 2021

29.0.1, April 2024

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

Apache license v2

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Unix

hosted

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

schema-less columns are supported

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL for querying

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Python

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

Sharding

none

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Kerberos/HDFS data loading

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency in MPP-Cluster

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

not needed in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and system

Access rights for users can be defined per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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