DBMS > AnzoGraph DB vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SAP HANA vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SAP HANA vs. Splunk

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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 scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBase

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	2.06
Rank	#123	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

phoenix.apache.org

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

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

phoenix.apache.org

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

help.sap.com/hana

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Cambridge Semantics

Apache Software Foundation

Microsoft

SAP

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2018

2014

1989

2010

2003

Current release

2.3, January 2021

5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Unix
Windows

Linux
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

yes

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

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Python

C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

user defined functions

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

SQLScript, R

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

Sharding

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

yes

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Kerberos/HDFS data loading

Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency in MPP-Cluster

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

not needed in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

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 Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancy

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

Access rights for users and roles

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