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System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. BaseX vs. CrateDB vs. H2 vs. Titan

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NameAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
DescriptionScalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualizationLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Distributed Database based on LuceneFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Native XML DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
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Score0.29
Rank#303  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#14  RDF stores
Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score0.71
Rank#227  Overall
#37  Document stores
#5  Spatial DBMS
#16  Search engines
#19  Time Series DBMS
#8  Vector DBMS
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Websitecambridgesemantics.com/­anzographbasex.orgcratedb.comwww.h2database.comgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationdocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmdocs.basex.orgcratedb.com/­docswww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperCambridge SemanticsBaseX GmbHCrateThomas MuellerAurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release20182007201320052012
Current release2.3, January 202110.7, August 20232.2.220, July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen SourceOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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CrateDB Cloud: a distributed SQL database that spreads data and processing across an elastic cluster of shared nothing nodes. CrateDB Cloud enables data insights at scale on Microsoft Azure, AWS and Google Cloud Platform.
Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
All Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator supportAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.noyes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilityyesno
APIs and other access methodsApache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Python
Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.NET
Erlang
Go infocommunity maintained client
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) infocommunity maintained client
Perl infocommunity maintained client
PHP
Python
R
Ruby infocommunity maintained client
Scala infocommunity maintained client
JavaClojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesyesuser defined functions (Javascript)Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsyes
Triggersnoyes infovia eventsnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingnoneShardingnoneyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication in MPP-ClusternoneConfigurable replication on table/partition-levelWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsKerberos/HDFS data loadingnononoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency in MPP-ClusterEventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infonot needed in graphsnonoyesyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDmultiple readers, single writerno infounique row identifiers can be used for implementing an optimistic concurrency control strategyACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsrights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server
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AnzoGraph DBBaseXCrateDBH2Titan
Specific characteristicsThe enterprise database for time series, documents, and vectors. Distributed - Native...
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Competitive advantagesResponse time in milliseconds: e ven for complex ad-hoc queries. Massive scaling...
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Typical application scenarios​ IoT: accelerate your IIoT projects with CrateDB, delivering real-time analytics...
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Key customersAcross all continents, CrateDB is used by companies of all sizes to meet the most...
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Market metricsThe CrateDB open source project was started in 2013 Honorable Mention in 2021 Gartner®...
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Licensing and pricing modelsSee CrateDB pricing >
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