DBMS > AnzoGraph DB vs. BigchainDB vs. Cassandra vs. Manticore Search vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. BigchainDB vs. Cassandra vs. Manticore Search vs. Postgres-XL

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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

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.29
Rank	#303	Overall
	#25	Graph DBMS
	#14	RDF stores

Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	98.83
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#302	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Website

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

Technical documentation

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

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

manual.manticoresearch.com

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

Cambridge Semantics

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Manticore Software

Initial release

2018

2016

2008

2017

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

Current release

2.3, January 2021

4.1.3, July 2023

6.0, February 2023

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

schema-free

Fixed schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

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.

Can index from XML

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

SQL-like query language

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

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

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Python

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Kerberos/HDFS data loading

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency in MPP-Cluster

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

not needed in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

ACID

MVCC

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

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

yes

Access rights for users can be defined per object

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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