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DBMS > AnzoGraph DB vs. Drizzle vs. Fauna vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. GridGain

System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. Drizzle vs. Fauna vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. GridGain

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NameAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  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 virtualizationMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Fauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.29
Rank#303  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#14  RDF stores
Score1.55
Rank#151  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score3.15
Rank#95  Overall
#14  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score1.55
Rank#150  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#70  Relational DBMS
Websitecambridgesemantics.com/­anzographfauna.comcloud.google.com/­bigtablewww.gridgain.com
Technical documentationdocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmdocs.fauna.comcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docswww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.html
DeveloperCambridge SemanticsDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerFauna, Inc.GoogleGridGain Systems, Inc.
Initial release20182008201420152007
Current release2.3, January 20217.2.4, September 2012GridGain 8.5.1
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesyesno
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Implementation languageC++ScalaJava, C++, .Net
Server operating systemsLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
hostedhostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonoyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.yes infowith proprietary extensionsnonoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL
APIs and other access methodsApache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
JDBCRESTful HTTP APIgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Python
C
C++
Java
PHP
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesnouser defined functionsnoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)
Triggersnono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.nonoyes (cache interceptors and events)
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingShardinghorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication in MPP-ClusterMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesyes (replicated cache)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsKerberos/HDFS data loadingnonoyesyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency in MPP-ClusterImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infonot needed in graphsyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDAtomic single-row operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPIdentity management, authentication, and access controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Security Hooks for custom implementations

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