DBMS > AnzoGraph DB vs. CockroachDB vs. MaxDB vs. Snowflake vs. Splice Machine

System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. CockroachDB vs. MaxDB vs. Snowflake vs. Splice Machine

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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

CockroachDB is a distributed database architected for modern cloud applications. It is wire compatible with PostgreSQL and backed by a Key-Value Store, which is either RocksDB or a purpose-built derivative, called Pebble.

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.23
Rank	#307	Overall
	#24	Graph DBMS
	#13	RDF stores

Score	6.15
Rank	#55	Overall
	#33	Relational DBMS

Score	2.32
Rank	#112	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#250	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Website

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

www.cockroachlabs.com

maxdb.sap.com

www.snowflake.com

splicemachine.com

Technical documentation

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

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

Developer

Cambridge Semantics

Cockroach Labs

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Splice Machine

Initial release

2018

2015

1984

2014

Current release

2.3, January 2021

23.1.1, May 2023

7.9.10.12, February 2024

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

dynamic schema

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.

yes, wire compatible with PostgreSQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Python

C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

yes

user defined functions

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

all tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFT

none

yes

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Kerberos/HDFS data loading

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency in MPP-Cluster

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

not needed in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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