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System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. Apache Kylin vs. Cassandra vs. NSDb

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NameAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Kylin  Xexclude from comparisonCassandra  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualizationA distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stackWide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB infoOptimized for write accessScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSWide column storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS infostarting with release V5
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.23
Rank#307  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score1.18
Rank#172  Overall
#79  Relational DBMS
Score101.89
Rank#12  Overall
#1  Wide column stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Websitecambridgesemantics.com/­anzographkylin.apache.orgcassandra.apache.orgnsdb.io
Technical documentationdocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmkylin.apache.org/­docscassandra.apache.org/­doc/­latestnsdb.io/­Architecture
DeveloperCambridge SemanticsApache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay IncApache Software Foundation infoApache top level project, originally developped by Facebook
Initial release2018201520082017
Current release2.3, January 20213.1.0, July 20204.1.3, July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJava, Scala
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, string
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 indexesnoyesrestricted infoonly equality queries, not always the best performing solutionall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)SQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsApache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Python
C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Java
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesnono
Triggersnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication in MPP-Clusterselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possible
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsKerberos/HDFS data loadingyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency in MPP-ClusterImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infonot needed in graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesUsing Apache Lucene
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users can be defined per object
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AnzoGraph DBApache KylinCassandraNSDb
Specific characteristicsApache Cassandra is the leading NoSQL, distributed database management system, well...
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Competitive advantagesNo single point of failure ensures 100% availability . Operational simplicity for...
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Typical application scenariosInternet of Things (IOT), fraud detection applications, recommendation engines, product...
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Key customersApple, Netflix, Uber, ING,, Intuit,Fidelity, NY Times, Outbrain, BazaarVoice, Best...
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Market metricsCassandra is used by 40% of the Fortune 100.
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache license  Pricing for commercial distributions provided by DataStax and available...
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