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System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. CrateDB vs. Faircom DB vs. Spark SQL

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NameAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom DB infoformerly c-treeACE  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualizationDistributed Database based on LuceneNative high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Document store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.23
Rank#307  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score0.73
Rank#224  Overall
#37  Document stores
#5  Spatial DBMS
#16  Search engines
#19  Time Series DBMS
#8  Vector DBMS
Score0.20
Rank#318  Overall
#48  Key-value stores
#141  Relational DBMS
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitecambridgesemantics.com/­anzographcratedb.comwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-dbspark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationdocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmcratedb.com/­docsdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.htmlspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperCambridge SemanticsCrateFairCom CorporationApache Software Foundation
Initial release2018201319792014
Current release2.3, January 2021V12, November 20203.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Sourcecommercial infoRestricted, free version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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CrateDB Cloud: a distributed SQL database that spreads data and processing across an elastic cluster of shared nothing nodes. CrateDB Cloud enables data insights at scale on Microsoft Azure, AWS and Google Cloud Platform.
Implementation languageJavaANSI C, C++Scala
Server operating systemsLinuxAll Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator supportAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows infoeasily portable to other OSs
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structuresyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.yes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilityyes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensionsSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsApache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Python
.NET
Erlang
Go infocommunity maintained client
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) infocommunity maintained client
Perl infocommunity maintained client
PHP
Python
R
Ruby infocommunity maintained client
Scala infocommunity maintained client
.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic
Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesuser defined functions (Javascript)yes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++no
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingShardingFile partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding infoCustomizable business rules for table partitioningyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication in MPP-ClusterConfigurable replication on table/partition-levelyes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsKerberos/HDFS data loadingnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency in MPP-ClusterEventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infonot needed in graphsnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infounique row identifiers can be used for implementing an optimistic concurrency control strategytunable from ACID to Eventually Consistentno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesYes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memoryyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesrights management via user accountsFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for filesno
More information provided by the system vendor
AnzoGraph DBCrateDBFaircom DB infoformerly c-treeACESpark SQL
Specific characteristicsThe enterprise database for time series, documents, and vectors. Distributed - Native...
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Competitive advantagesResponse time in milliseconds: e ven for complex ad-hoc queries. Massive scaling...
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Typical application scenarios​ IoT: accelerate your IIoT projects with CrateDB, delivering real-time analytics...
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Key customersAcross all continents, CrateDB is used by companies of all sizes to meet the most...
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Market metricsThe CrateDB open source project was started in 2013 Honorable Mention in 2021 Gartner®...
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Licensing and pricing modelsSee CrateDB pricing >
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