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System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. Cassandra vs. MaxDB vs. OpenTSDB vs. Snowflake

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NameAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonCassandra  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  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 accessA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Wide column storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS infostarting with release V5
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Score0.23
Rank#307  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score101.89
Rank#12  Overall
#1  Wide column stores
Score2.32
Rank#112  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score121.33
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Websitecambridgesemantics.com/­anzographcassandra.apache.orgmaxdb.sap.comopentsdb.netwww.snowflake.com
Technical documentationdocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmcassandra.apache.org/­doc/­latestmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmldocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperCambridge SemanticsApache Software Foundation infoApache top level project, originally developped by FacebookSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsSnowflake Computing Inc.
Initial release20182008198420112014
Current release2.3, January 20214.1.3, July 20237.9.10.12, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoApache version 2commercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoLGPLcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaC++Java
Server operating systemsLinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
hosted
Data schemeSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportschema-freeyesschema-freeyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyes
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.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesnorestricted infoonly equality queries, not always the best performing solutionyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)yesnoyes
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
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
HTTP API
Telnet API
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Python
C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesnoyesnouser defined functions
Triggersnoyesyesnono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resources
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingSharding infono "single point of failure"noneSharding infobased on HBaseyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication in MPP-Clusterselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsKerberos/HDFS data loadingyesnonono
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 ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infonot needed in graphsnoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACIDnoACID
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.yesnononono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users can be defined per objectfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication
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AnzoGraph DBCassandraMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-DOpenTSDBSnowflake
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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