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System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. CouchDB vs. Machbase Neo vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. STSdb

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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

A native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	9.30
Rank	#45	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	0.12
Rank	#339	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

couchdb.apache.org

machbase.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

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

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

machbase.com/dbms

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

Developer

Cambridge Semantics

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developer

Machbase

Microsoft

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2018

2005

2013

2014

2011

Current release

2.3, January 2021

3.3.3, December 2023

V8.0, August 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

free test version available

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Windows

Data scheme

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

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

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Python

C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

View functions in JavaScript

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Kerberos/HDFS data loading

yes

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency in MPP-Cluster

Eventual Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

not needed in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a single document possible

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

strategy: optimistic locking

yes

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

volatile and lookup table

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights for users can be defined per database

simple password-based access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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