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DBMS > AnzoGraph DB vs. EXASOL vs. Firebird vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. EXASOL vs. Firebird vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. SwayDB

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NameAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualizationHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Key-value store
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Score0.29
Rank#303  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#14  RDF stores
Score1.76
Rank#139  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#309  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitecambridgesemantics.com/­anzographwww.exasol.comwww.firebirdsql.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storeswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationdocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmwww.exasol.com/­resourceswww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualswww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-store
DeveloperCambridge SemanticsExasolFirebird FoundationIBMSimer Plaha
Initial release201820002000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20172018
Current release2.3, January 20215.0.0, January 20242.0
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree trial version availablecommercialOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public Licensecommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C and C++Scala
Server operating systemsLinuxAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition
Data schemeSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.yesyesyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeno
APIs and other access methodsApache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Python
Java
Lua
Python
R
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesuser defined functionsPSQLyesno
Triggersnoyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingShardingnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication in MPP-ClusterSource-replica replicationActive-active shard replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsKerberos/HDFS data loadingyes infoHadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency in MPP-ClusterImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infonot needed in graphsyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnoAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersNo - written data is immutableyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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