DBMS > AnzoGraph DB vs. EJDB vs. HugeGraph vs. Netezza vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. EJDB vs. HugeGraph vs. Netezza vs. Snowflake

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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

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Score	9.06
Rank	#46	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

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

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Cambridge Semantics

Softmotions

Baidu

IBM

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2018

2012

2018

2000

2014

Current release

2.3, January 2021

0.9

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

server-less

Linux
macOS
Unix

Linux

included in appliance

hosted

Data scheme

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

also supports composite index and range index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

in-process shared library

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Python

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

Groovy
Java
Python

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

none

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

none

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Kerberos/HDFS data loading

via hugegraph-spark

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency in MPP-Cluster

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

not needed in graphs

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

edges in graph

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

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

Users, roles and permissions

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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