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DBMS > AnzoGraph DB vs. Apache Impala vs. IRONdb vs. RDF4J vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. Apache Impala vs. IRONdb vs. RDF4J vs. SwayDB

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NameAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionScalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualizationAnalytic DBMS for HadoopA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSRDF storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.23
Rank#307  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score13.77
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitecambridgesemantics.com/­anzographimpala.apache.orgwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/rdf4j.orgswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationdocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmldocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperCambridge SemanticsApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaCirconus LLC.Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Simer Plaha
Initial release20182013201720042018
Current release2.3, January 20214.1.0, June 2022V0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C and C++JavaScala
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxLinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyesschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemasschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesno
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 indexesnoyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.SQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)nono
APIs and other access methodsApache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIJava API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Java
PHP
Python
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyes, in Luayesno
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication in MPP-Clusterselectable replication factorconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awarenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsKerberos/HDFS data loadingyes infoquery execution via MapReducenonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency in MPP-ClusterEventual ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infonot needed in graphsnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and Kerberosnonono

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