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System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. Databend vs. GeoMesa vs. Snowflake

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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

An open-source, elastic, and workload-aware cloud data warehouse designed to meet businesses' massive-scale analytics needs at low cost and with low complexity

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

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

Primary database model

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

Score	0.34
Rank	#283	Overall
	#130	Relational DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

github.com/datafuselabs/databend
www.databend.com

www.geomesa.org

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.databend.com

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Cambridge Semantics

Databend Labs

CCRi and others

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2018

2021

2014

Current release

2.3, January 2021

1.0.59, April 2023

5.0.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Rust

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted
Linux
macOS

hosted

Data scheme

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

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

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

APIs and other access methods

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

CLI Client
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

none

depending on storage layer

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

none

depending on storage layer

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Kerberos/HDFS data loading

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency in MPP-Cluster

Immediate Consistency

depending on storage layer

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

depending on storage layer

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

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

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