DBMS > AnzoGraph DB vs. BigchainDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. BigchainDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. TinkerGraph

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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

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Document store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

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

Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	3.05
Rank	#97	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#16	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#345	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

www.bigchaindb.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

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

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

Developer

Cambridge Semantics

Google

Oracle

Initial release

2018

2016

2010

2011

2009

Current release

2.3, January 2021

24.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Data scheme

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

schema-free

yes

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

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

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Python

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

selectable replication factor

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Kerberos/HDFS data loading

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency in MPP-Cluster

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

not needed in graphs

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

optional

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

off heap cache

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

yes

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Access rights for users and roles

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