DBMS > AnzoGraph DB vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. ClickHouse vs. Weaviate vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. ClickHouse vs. Weaviate vs. Yanza

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Name

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Description

Scalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualization

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

A high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.

An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	16.34
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	1.73
Rank	#143	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Website

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

clickhouse.com

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

yanza.com

Technical documentation

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

clickhouse.com/docs

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Cambridge Semantics

Atos Convergence Creators

Clickhouse Inc.

Weaviate B.V.

Yanza

Initial release

2018

2016

2019

2015

Current release

2.3, January 2021

1703

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Windows

Data scheme

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

yes

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

yes

string, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references

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 data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

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

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

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

LDAP

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Python

All languages with LDAP bindings

3rd party library
C++
Elixir

3rd party library
Go

3rd party library
Java

3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party library
Kotlin

3rd party library
Nim

3rd party library
Perl

3rd party library
PHP

3rd party library
Python

3rd party library
R

3rd party library
Ruby

3rd party library
Rust
Scala

3rd party library

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

yes

Triggers

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

Sharding

cell division

key based and custom

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

yes

Asynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.

yes

none

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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate 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

Atomic execution of specific operations

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

LDAP bind authentication

Access rights for users and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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