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

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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

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	12.45
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

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

Score	1.97
Rank	#129	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Website

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

impala.apache.org

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

Technical documentation

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

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

Developer

Cambridge Semantics

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Microsoft

Oracle

Initial release

2018

2013

2014

2007

Current release

2.3, January 2021

4.1.0, June 2022

14.1, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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

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

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

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

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

.Net
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

JavaScript

Triggers

JavaScript

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

selectable replication factor

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes, with selectable consistency level

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

not needed in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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