DBMS > AnzoGraph DB vs. Drizzle vs. PostgreSQL vs. Splice Machine vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. Drizzle vs. PostgreSQL vs. Splice Machine vs. STSdb

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Scalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualization

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

Widely used open source RDBMS

Developed as objectoriented DBMS (Postgres), gradually enhanced with 'standards' like SQL

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

with object oriented extensions, e.g.: user defined types/functions and inheritance. Handling of key/value pairs with hstore module.

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Apache Age
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

with pgvector extension

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

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

Score	645.54
Rank	#4	Overall
	#4	Relational DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#250	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

www.postgresql.org

splicemachine.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

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

www.postgresql.org/docs

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

Developer

Cambridge Semantics

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

PostgreSQL Global Development Group

www.postgresql.org/developer

Splice Machine

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2018

2008

1989

1989: Postgres, 1996: PostgreSQL

2014

2011

Current release

2.3, January 2021

7.2.4, September 2012

16.3, May 2024

3.1, March 2021

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OpenBSD
OS X
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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.

yes

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Python

C
C++
Java
PHP

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

yes

Java

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

Sharding

partitioning by range, list and (since PostgreSQL 11) by hash

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Kerberos/HDFS data loading

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

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

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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