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DBMS > AnzoGraph DB vs. Datomic vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. NSDb vs. SAP IQ

System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. Datomic vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. NSDb vs. SAP IQ

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NameAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparison
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 durabilityElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn-oriented
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Score0.29
Rank#303  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#14  RDF stores
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score2.64
Rank#108  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Websitecambridgesemantics.com/­anzographwww.datomic.comazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsnsdb.iowww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.html
Technical documentationdocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmdocs.datomic.comdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsnsdb.io/­Architecturehelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQ
DeveloperCambridge SemanticsCognitectMicrosoftSAP, formerly Sybase
Initial release20182012201620171994
Current release2.3, January 20211.0.7075, December 202316.1 SPS04, April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree trial version availablecommercial infolimited edition freecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureC++Java, Scala
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMhostedLinux
macOS
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.noyesSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsApache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Python
Clojure
Java
C#
Java
PHP
Java
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesyes infoTransaction FunctionsTransact SQLnoyes
TriggersnoBy using transaction functionsnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSharding, horizontal partitioningShardingshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication in MPP-Clusternone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersyesSAP/Sybase Replication Server
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsKerberos/HDFS data loadingnononoHadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency in MPP-ClusterImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infonot needed in graphsnono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesUsing Apache Luceneyes
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 developmentno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesnoyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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