DBMS > AnzoGraph DB vs. Cachelot.io vs. ClickHouse vs. ToroDB vs. VoltDB

System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. Cachelot.io vs. ClickHouse vs. ToroDB vs. VoltDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Scalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualization

In-memory caching system

A high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.22
Rank	#302	Overall
	#24	Graph DBMS
	#13	RDF stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Score	15.88
Rank	#37	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	1.38
Rank	#156	Overall
	#72	Relational DBMS

Website

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

cachelot.io

clickhouse.com

github.com/torodb/server

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

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

clickhouse.com/docs

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Cambridge Semantics

Clickhouse Inc.

8Kdata

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2018

2015

2016

2010

Current release

2.3, January 2021

v24.6.2.17-stable, July 2024

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Java, C++

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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.

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

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

Memcached protocol

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Python

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

3rd party library
C++
Elixir

3rd party library
Go

3rd party library
Java

3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party library
Kotlin

3rd party library
Nim

3rd party library
Perl

3rd party library
PHP

3rd party library
Python

3rd party library
R

3rd party library
Ruby

3rd party library
Rust
Scala

3rd party library

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

yes

Java

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

none

key based and custom

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

none

Asynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Kerberos/HDFS data loading

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency in MPP-Cluster

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

not needed in graphs

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

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

Access rights for users and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.

Access rights for users and roles

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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