DBMS > AnzoGraph DB vs. BaseX vs. FoundationDB vs. Hypertable vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. BaseX vs. FoundationDB vs. Hypertable vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

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Name

Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Native XML DBMS

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Wide column store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

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

Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	1.03
Rank	#190	Overall
	#31	Document stores
	#28	Key-value stores
	#89	Relational DBMS

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Website

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

basex.org

github.com/apple/foundationdb

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

Technical documentation

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

docs.basex.org

apple.github.io/foundationdb

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

Developer

Cambridge Semantics

BaseX GmbH

FoundationDB

Hypertable Inc.

Microsoft

Initial release

2018

2007

2013

2009

2014

Current release

2.3, January 2021

10.7, August 2023

6.2.28, November 2020

0.9.8.11, March 2016

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

hosted

Data scheme

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

schema-free

some layers support schemas

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

some layers support typing

yes

JSON types

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

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

supported in specific SQL layer only

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

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

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

C++ API
Thrift

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Python

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

yes

in SQL-layer only

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via events

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

none

yes

selectable replication factor on file system level

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Kerberos/HDFS data loading

yes

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency in MPP-Cluster

Linearizable consistency

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

not needed in graphs

in SQL-layer only

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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