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DBMS > AnzoGraph DB vs. Cassandra vs. Machbase Neo vs. Netezza vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. Cassandra vs. Machbase Neo vs. Netezza vs. Snowflake

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NameAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonCassandra  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  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 accessTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataData warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystemsCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Wide column storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS infostarting with release V5
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Score0.27
Rank#302  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score103.86
Rank#12  Overall
#1  Wide column stores
Score0.22
Rank#324  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score10.18
Rank#46  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score123.20
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Websitecambridgesemantics.com/­anzographcassandra.apache.orgmachbase.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­netezzawww.snowflake.com
Technical documentationdocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmcassandra.apache.org/­doc/­latestmachbase.com/­dbmsdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperCambridge SemanticsApache Software Foundation infoApache top level project, originally developped by FacebookMachbaseIBMSnowflake Computing Inc.
Initial release20182008201320002014
Current release2.3, January 20214.1.3, July 2023V8.0, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoApache version 2commercial infofree test version availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaC
Server operating systemsLinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux infoincluded in appliancehosted
Data schemeSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportschema-freeyesyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesnorestricted infoonly equality queries, not always the best performing solutionyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)SQL-like query languageyesyes
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
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Python
C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesnonoyesuser defined functions
Triggersnoyesnonono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resources
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingSharding infono "single point of failure"ShardingShardingyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication in MPP-Clusterselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsKerberos/HDFS data loadingyesnoyesno
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
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infonot needed in graphsnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesnoyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infovolatile and lookup tableno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users can be defined per objectsimple password-based access controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication
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AnzoGraph DBCassandraMachbase Neo infoFormer name was InfinifluxNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBMSnowflake
Specific characteristicsApache Cassandra is the leading NoSQL, distributed database management system, well...
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Competitive advantagesNo single point of failure ensures 100% availability . Operational simplicity for...
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Typical application scenariosInternet of Things (IOT), fraud detection applications, recommendation engines, product...
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Key customersApple, Netflix, Uber, ING,, Intuit,Fidelity, NY Times, Outbrain, BazaarVoice, Best...
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Market metricsCassandra is used by 40% of the Fortune 100.
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache license  Pricing for commercial distributions provided by DataStax and available...
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