DBMS > AnzoGraph DB vs. EsgynDB vs. Geode vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. EsgynDB vs. Geode vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. SAP HANA

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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

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
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	1.92
Rank	#131	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

www.esgyn.cn

geode.apache.org

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

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

geode.apache.org/docs

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Cambridge Semantics

Esgyn

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

Microsoft

SAP

Initial release

2018

2015

2002

2014

2010

Current release

2.3, January 2021

1.1, February 2017

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

hosted

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON 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.

Secondary indexes

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

SQL-like query language (OQL)

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

Java Stored Procedures

user defined functions

JavaScript

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

JavaScript

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Multi-source replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Kerberos/HDFS data loading

yes

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency in MPP-Cluster

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

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

yes, on a single node

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights per client and object definable

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

yes

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