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System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. Citus vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Geode vs. Infobright

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NameAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualizationScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesHigh performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSDocument storeKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score0.29
Rank#303  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#14  RDF stores
Score2.15
Rank#117  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score1.86
Rank#134  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score1.02
Rank#192  Overall
#90  Relational DBMS
Websitecambridgesemantics.com/­anzographwww.citusdata.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegeode.apache.orgignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdb
Technical documentationdocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmdocs.citusdata.comfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasegeode.apache.org/­docs
DeveloperCambridge SemanticsGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.
Initial release20182010201220022005
Current release2.3, January 20218.1, December 20181.1, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfirecommercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageCJavaC
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxhostedAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinux
Windows
Data schemeSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
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.noyes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalitynonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnono infoKnowledge Grid Technology used instead
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.yes infostandard, with numerous extensionsnoSQL-like query language (OQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsApache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.limited functionality with using 'rules'user defined functionsno
TriggersnoyesCallbacks are triggered when data changesyes infoCache Event Listenersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication in MPP-ClusterSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsMulti-source replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsKerberos/HDFS data loadingnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency in MPP-ClusterImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infonot needed in graphsyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDyesyes, on a single nodeACID
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.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess rights per client and object definablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

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