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DBMS > AnzoGraph DB vs. Datomic vs. Drizzle vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. Datomic vs. Drizzle vs. RDF4J

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NameAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionScalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualizationDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRDF store
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Score0.27
Rank#302  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score1.76
Rank#145  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score0.71
Rank#231  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websitecambridgesemantics.com/­anzographwww.datomic.comrdf4j.org
Technical documentationdocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmdocs.datomic.comrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperCambridge SemanticsCognitectDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release2018201220082004
Current release2.3, January 20211.0.6735, June 20237.2.4, September 2012
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree trial version availablecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureC++Java
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyesyesyes infoRDF Schemas
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.noyes infowith proprietary extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsApache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
RESTful HTTP APIJDBCJava API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Python
Clojure
Java
C
C++
Java
PHP
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesyes infoTransaction Functionsnoyes
TriggersnoBy using transaction functionsno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication in MPP-Clusternone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
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-ClusterImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infonot needed in graphsnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as well
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes inforecommended only for testing and development
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesnoPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPno

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