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DBMS > AnzoGraph DB vs. BigObject vs. Fauna vs. Spark SQL vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. BigObject vs. Fauna vs. Spark SQL vs. STSdb

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NameAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualizationAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesFauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value store
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Score0.29
Rank#303  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#14  RDF stores
Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score1.55
Rank#151  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websitecambridgesemantics.com/­anzographbigobject.iofauna.comspark.apache.org/­sqlgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmdocs.bigobject.iodocs.fauna.comspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperCambridge SemanticsBigObject, Inc.Fauna, Inc.Apache Software FoundationSTS Soft SC
Initial release20182015201420142011
Current release2.3, January 20213.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20234.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree trial version availablecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageScalaScalaC#
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Windows
Data schemeSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.SQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsApache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Python
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
Java
Python
R
Scala
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesLuauser defined functionsnono
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingnonehorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingyes, utilizing Spark Corenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication in MPP-ClusternoneMulti-source replicationnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsKerberos/HDFS data loadingnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency in MPP-ClusternoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infonot needed in graphsyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesnoIdentity management, authentication, and access controlnono

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