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System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. Coveo vs. Ingres vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

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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

AI-powered hosted search, recommendation and personalization platform providing tools for both low-code and full-code development

Well established RDBMS

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.29
Rank	#303	Overall
	#25	Graph DBMS
	#14	RDF stores

Score	2.11
Rank	#118	Overall
	#11	Search engines

Score	3.80
Rank	#82	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Website

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

www.coveo.com

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

Technical documentation

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

docs.coveo.com

docs.actian.com/ingres

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

Developer

Cambridge Semantics

Coveo

Actian Corporation

Microsoft

Initial release

2018

2012

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2014

Current release

2.3, January 2021

11.2, May 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

hybrid - fields need to be configured prior to indexing, but relationships can be exploited at query time without pre-configuration

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

Secondary indexes

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

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 API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

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

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

yes

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

yes

Ingres Replicator

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Kerberos/HDFS data loading

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency in MPP-Cluster

Immediate 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

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

granular access controls, API key management, content filters

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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