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DBMS > AnzoGraph DB vs. Apache Impala vs. Datomic vs. IBM Cloudant

System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. Apache Impala vs. Datomic vs. IBM Cloudant

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NameAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualizationAnalytic DBMS for HadoopDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.22
Rank#302  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score10.63
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score1.55
Rank#144  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score2.85
Rank#95  Overall
#18  Document stores
Websitecambridgesemantics.com/­anzographimpala.apache.orgwww.datomic.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudant
Technical documentationdocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmldocs.datomic.comcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
DeveloperCambridge SemanticsApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaCognitectIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014
Initial release2018201320122010
Current release2.3, January 20214.1.0, June 20221.0.7180, July 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infolimited edition freecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++Java, ClojureErlang
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxAll OS with a Java VMhosted
Data schemeSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesno
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.SQL-like DML and DDL statementsnono
APIs and other access methodsApache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBCClojure
Java
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyes infoTransaction FunctionsView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript
TriggersnonoBy using transaction functionsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingShardingnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication in MPP-Clusterselectable replication factornone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsKerberos/HDFS data loadingyes infoquery execution via MapReducenoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency in MPP-ClusterEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infonot needed in graphsnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoOptimistic locking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosnoAccess rights for users can be defined per database

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