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System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. Cassandra vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. Memgraph

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NameAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonCassandra  Xexclude from comparisonDatastax Enterprise  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualizationWide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB infoOptimized for write accessDataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the always-on, scalable data platform built on Apache Cassandra and designed for hybrid Cloud. DSE integrates graph, search, analytics, administration, developer tooling, and monitoring into a unified platform.An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Wide column storeWide column storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS infostarting with release V5Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS
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Score0.29
Rank#303  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#14  RDF stores
Score98.83
Rank#12  Overall
#1  Wide column stores
Score5.93
Rank#56  Overall
#4  Wide column stores
Score3.19
Rank#94  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Websitecambridgesemantics.com/­anzographcassandra.apache.orgwww.datastax.com/­products/­datastax-enterprisememgraph.com
Technical documentationdocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmcassandra.apache.org/­doc/­latestdocs.datastax.commemgraph.com/­docs
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperCambridge SemanticsApache Software Foundation infoApache top level project, originally developped by FacebookDataStaxMemgraph Ltd
Initial release2018200820112017
Current release2.3, January 20214.1.3, July 20236.8, April 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC and C++
Server operating systemsLinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Linux
Data schemeSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportschema-freeschema-freeschema-free and schema-optional
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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 indexesnorestricted infoonly equality queries, not always the best performing solutionyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQLno
APIs and other access methodsApache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
Proprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift
Proprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin infowith DSE Graph
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Python
C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesnono
Triggersnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding infodynamic graph partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication in MPP-Clusterselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleconfigurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computingMulti-source replication using RAFT
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsKerberos/HDFS data loadingyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency in MPP-ClusterEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency infoconsistency level can be individually decided with each write operation
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infonot needed in graphsnonoyes inforelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACID infowith snapshot isolation
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users can be defined per objectAccess rights for users can be defined per objectUsers, roles and permissions
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AnzoGraph DBCassandraDatastax EnterpriseMemgraph
Specific characteristicsApache Cassandra is the leading NoSQL, distributed database management system, well...
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DataStax Enterprise is scale-out data infrastructure for enterprises that need to...
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Memgraph directly connects to your streaming infrastructure so you and your team...
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Competitive advantagesNo single point of failure ensures 100% availability . Operational simplicity for...
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Supporting the following application requirements: Zero downtime - Built on Apache...
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Business Source License ensures a future for the Memgraph community MAGE algorithm...
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Typical application scenariosInternet of Things (IOT), fraud detection applications, recommendation engines, product...
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Applications that must be massively and linearly scalable with 100% uptime and able...
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Graph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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Key customersApple, Netflix, Uber, ING,, Intuit,Fidelity, NY Times, Outbrain, BazaarVoice, Best...
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Capital One, Cisco, Comcast, eBay, McDonald's, Microsoft, Safeway, Sony, UBS, and...
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Market metricsCassandra is used by 40% of the Fortune 100.
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Among the Forbes 100 Most Innovative Companies, DataStax is trusted by 5 of the top...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache license  Pricing for commercial distributions provided by DataStax and available...
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