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System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. Bangdb vs. MaxDB vs. OrientDB 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

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

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

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.08
Rank	#347	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.32
Rank	#112	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	3.19
Rank	#93	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#7	Graph DBMS
	#14	Key-value stores

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

Technical documentation

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

docs.bangdb.com

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Cambridge Semantics

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2018

2012

1984

2010

2014

Current release

2.3, January 2021

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

7.9.10.12, February 2024

3.2.29, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

BSD 3

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

hosted

Data scheme

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

yes

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

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

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL like support with command line tool

yes

SQL-like query language, no joins

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

yes

Java, Javascript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

Hooks

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

none

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Kerberos/HDFS data loading

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency in MPP-Cluster

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

not needed in graphs

yes

relationship in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

yes (enterprise version only)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

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

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