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System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. Blueflood vs. CrateDB vs. GridDB vs. STSdb

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NameAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  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 virtualizationScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraDistributed Database based on LuceneScalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Time Series DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
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Score0.29
Rank#303  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#14  RDF stores
Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score0.71
Rank#227  Overall
#37  Document stores
#5  Spatial DBMS
#16  Search engines
#19  Time Series DBMS
#8  Vector DBMS
Score2.09
Rank#120  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websitecambridgesemantics.com/­anzographblueflood.iocratedb.comgriddb.netgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikicratedb.com/­docsdocs.griddb.net
DeveloperCambridge SemanticsRackspaceCrateToshiba CorporationSTS Soft SC
Initial release20182013201320132011
Current release2.3, January 20215.1, August 20224.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availableOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++C#
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
All Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator supportLinuxWindows
Data schemeSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportpredefined schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampyes 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 indexesnonoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.noyes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilitySQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)no
APIs and other access methodsApache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
HTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Python
.NET
Erlang
Go infocommunity maintained client
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) infocommunity maintained client
Perl infocommunity maintained client
PHP
Python
R
Ruby infocommunity maintained client
Scala infocommunity maintained client
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesnouser defined functions (Javascript)nono
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingSharding infobased on CassandraShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication in MPP-Clusterselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraConfigurable replication on table/partition-levelSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsKerberos/HDFS data loadingnonoConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency in MPP-ClusterEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level
Immediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containers
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infonot needed in graphsnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono infounique row identifiers can be used for implementing an optimistic concurrency control strategyACID at container levelno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesnorights management via user accountsAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseno
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AnzoGraph DBBluefloodCrateDBGridDBSTSdb
Specific characteristicsThe enterprise database for time series, documents, and vectors. Distributed - Native...
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GridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Competitive advantagesResponse time in milliseconds: e ven for complex ad-hoc queries. Massive scaling...
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1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Typical application scenarios​ IoT: accelerate your IIoT projects with CrateDB, delivering real-time analytics...
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Factory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Key customersAcross all continents, CrateDB is used by companies of all sizes to meet the most...
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Denso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metricsThe CrateDB open source project was started in 2013 Honorable Mention in 2021 Gartner®...
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GitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing modelsSee CrateDB pricing >
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Open Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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