DBMS > AnzoGraph DB vs. Datomic vs. RocksDB vs. SWC-DB vs. Tkrzw

System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. Datomic vs. RocksDB vs. SWC-DB vs. Tkrzw

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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

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

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.23
Rank	#307	Overall
	#24	Graph DBMS
	#13	RDF stores

Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

www.datomic.com

rocksdb.org

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

dbmx.net/tkrzw

Technical documentation

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

docs.datomic.com

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Cambridge Semantics

Cognitect

Facebook, Inc.

Alex Kashirin

Mikio Hirabayashi

Initial release

2018

2012

2013

2020

Current release

2.3, January 2021

1.0.6735, June 2023

8.11.4, April 2024

0.5, April 2021

0.9.3, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

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

RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Python

Clojure
Java

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

yes

Transaction Functions

Triggers

By using transaction functions

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

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

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Kerberos/HDFS data loading

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency in MPP-Cluster

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

not needed in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

using specific database classes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

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