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System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. Apache Cassandra vs. Hazelcast vs. LevelDB

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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

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Wide column store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

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

Score	98.94
Rank	#11	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	5.72
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Score	2.33
Rank	#111	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Website

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

cassandra.apache.org

hazelcast.com

github.com/google/leveldb

Technical documentation

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

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

Developer

Cambridge Semantics

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Hazelcast

Google

Initial release

2018

2008

2011

Current release

2.3, January 2021

5.0-rc1, July 2024

5.3.6, November 2023

1.23, February 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

the object must implement a serialization strategy

Secondary indexes

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

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

APIs and other access methods

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

Proprietary protocol

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

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Python

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

Triggers

yes

Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

none

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

yes

Replicated Map

none

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 or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

not needed in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with automatic compression on writes

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 can be defined per object

Role-based access control

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