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System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. Apache Impala vs. BaseX vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

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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

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Secondary database models

Document store

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.29
Rank	#303	Overall
	#25	Graph DBMS
	#14	RDF stores

Score	12.45
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Website

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

impala.apache.org

basex.org

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

Technical documentation

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

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

docs.basex.org

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

Developer

Cambridge Semantics

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

BaseX GmbH

Microsoft

Initial release

2018

2013

2007

2014

Current release

2.3, January 2021

4.1.0, June 2022

10.7, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XQuery supports types

yes

JSON types

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via events

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

Sharding

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

selectable replication factor

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Kerberos/HDFS data loading

yes

query execution via MapReduce

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency in MPP-Cluster

Eventual Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

not needed in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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