DBMS > AnzoGraph DB vs. EsgynDB vs. Faircom EDGE vs. HarperDB vs. MariaDB

System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. EsgynDB vs. Faircom EDGE vs. HarperDB vs. MariaDB

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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

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

FairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environments

Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	0.02
Rank	#368	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores
	#156	Relational DBMS

Score	0.55
Rank	#248	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	93.21
Rank	#13	Overall
	#9	Relational DBMS

Website

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

www.esgyn.cn

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

www.harperdb.io

mariadb.com

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org

Site of MariaDB Foundation

Technical documentation

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

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.html

docs.harperdb.io/docs

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

Developer

Cambridge Semantics

Esgyn

FairCom Corporation

HarperDB

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server)

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

Initial release

2018

2015

1979

2017

2009

Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995

Current release

2.3, January 2021

V3, October 2020

3.1, August 2021

11.3.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

ANSI C, C++

Node.js

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

Linux
OS X

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

Data scheme

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

dynamic schema

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

yes

JSON data types

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

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

ANSI SQL queries

SQL-like data manipulation statements

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net

.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

Java Stored Procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

Sharding

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Kerberos/HDFS data loading

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency in MPP-Cluster

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

not needed in graphs

yes

when using SQL

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using LMDB

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

with MEMORY storage engine

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Fine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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