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System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. Apache Impala vs. Ignite vs. MySQL vs. OpenSearch

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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

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

Widely used open source RDBMS

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Vector DBMS

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

Score	13.77
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	3.16
Rank	#96	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

impala.apache.org

ignite.apache.org

www.mysql.com

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

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

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

dev.mysql.com/doc

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Cambridge Semantics

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Apache Software Foundation

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

2018

2013

2015

1995

2021

Current release

2.3, January 2021

4.1.0, June 2022

Apache Ignite 2.6

8.4.0, April 2024

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Java, .Net

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

with proprietary extensions

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

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

selectable replication factor

yes (replicated cache)

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Kerberos/HDFS data loading

yes

query execution via MapReduce

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency in MPP-Cluster

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

not needed in graphs

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

Security Hooks for custom implementations

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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