DBMS > AnzoGraph DB vs. Datomic vs. NCache vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. Datomic vs. NCache vs. RocksDB

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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

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Score	0.27
Rank	#302	Overall
	#24	Graph DBMS
	#13	RDF stores

Score	1.76
Rank	#145	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	0.98
Rank	#196	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	4.00
Rank	#84	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

www.datomic.com

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

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

docs.datomic.com

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Cambridge Semantics

Cognitect

Alachisoft

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2018

2012

2005

2013

Current release

2.3, January 2021

1.0.6735, June 2023

5.3.3, April 2024

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

APIs and other access methods

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

RESTful HTTP API

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Python

Clojure
Java

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

yes

Transaction Functions

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

Notifications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

yes

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

yes, with selectable consistency level

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

not needed in graphs

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

recommended only for testing and development

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

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