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System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. BigObject vs. GridDB vs. Oracle vs. STSdb

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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

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big Data

Widely used RDBMS

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Trend Chart

Score	0.27
Rank	#302	Overall
	#24	Graph DBMS
	#13	RDF stores

Score	0.13
Rank	#342	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Score	2.02
Rank	#132	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	1234.27
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#365	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores

Website

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

bigobject.io

griddb.net

www.oracle.com/database

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

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

docs.bigobject.io

docs.griddb.net

docs.oracle.com/en/database

Developer

Cambridge Semantics

BigObject, Inc.

Toshiba Corporation

Oracle

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2018

2015

2013

1980

2011

Current release

2.3, January 2021

5.1, August 2022

23c, September 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

AGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Windows

Data scheme

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestamp

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

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

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

Lua

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

none

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

none

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Kerberos/HDFS data loading

Connector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobs

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency in MPP-Cluster

none

Immediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containers

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

not needed in graphs

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID at container level

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

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

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights for users can be defined per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

Factory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Key customers

Denso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metrics

GitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing models

Open Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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