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System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. CrateDB vs. Snowflake

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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

A RDF storage and query DBMS, shipped as an optional-use component of the Apache Jena framework

Distributed Database based on Lucene

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

RDF store

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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

Score	3.62
Rank	#83	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	0.71
Rank	#227	Overall
	#37	Document stores
	#5	Spatial DBMS
	#16	Search engines
	#19	Time Series DBMS
	#10	Vector DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

jena.apache.org/documentation/tdb/index.html

cratedb.com

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

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

jena.apache.org/documentation/tdb/index.html

cratedb.com/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Cambridge Semantics

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Crate

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2018

2000

2013

2014

Current release

2.3, January 2021

4.9.0, July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

All Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator support

hosted

Data scheme

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

RDF Schemas

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibility

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Python

Java

.NET
Erlang
Go

community maintained client
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

community maintained client
Perl

community maintained client
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

community maintained client
Scala

community maintained client

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

yes

user defined functions (Javascript)

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

via event handler

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

none

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

none

Configurable replication on table/partition-level

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Kerberos/HDFS data loading

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency in MPP-Cluster

Eventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

not needed in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

unique row identifiers can be used for implementing an optimistic concurrency control strategy

ACID

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 control via Jena Security

rights management via user accounts

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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