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System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. CrateDB vs. Firebird vs. VoltDB

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NameAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  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 LuceneFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseDistributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Document store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.29
Rank#303  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#14  RDF stores
Score0.71
Rank#227  Overall
#37  Document stores
#5  Spatial DBMS
#16  Search engines
#19  Time Series DBMS
#8  Vector DBMS
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score1.47
Rank#157  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Websitecambridgesemantics.com/­anzographcratedb.comwww.firebirdsql.orgwww.voltdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmcratedb.com/­docswww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.voltdb.com
DeveloperCambridge SemanticsCrateFirebird FoundationVoltDB Inc.
Initial release201820132000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2010
Current release2.3, January 20215.0.0, January 202411.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree trial version availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++Java, C++
Server operating systemsLinuxAll Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator supportAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.yes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilityyesyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
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
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
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
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesuser defined functions (Javascript)PSQLJava
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication in MPP-ClusterConfigurable replication on table/partition-levelSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsKerberos/HDFS data loadingnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency in MPP-ClusterEventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infonot needed in graphsnoyesno infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
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 strategyACIDACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSnapshots and command logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesrights management via user accountsUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptUsers and roles with access to stored procedures
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AnzoGraph DBCrateDBFirebirdVoltDB
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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