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System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. Fauna vs. FeatureBase vs. mSQL vs. Sphinx

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NameAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonFeatureBase  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualizationFauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.Real-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.29
Rank#303  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#14  RDF stores
Score1.55
Rank#151  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score0.31
Rank#292  Overall
#135  Relational DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#169  Overall
#76  Relational DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitecambridgesemantics.com/­anzographfauna.comwww.featurebase.comhughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmdocs.fauna.comdocs.featurebase.comsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperCambridge SemanticsFauna, Inc.Molecula and Pilosa Open Source ContributorsHughes TechnologiesSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20182014201719942001
Current release2.3, January 20212022, May 20224.4, October 20213.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree trial version availablecommercialcommercialcommercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageScalaGoCC++
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinux
macOS
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesno
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 indexesnoyesnoyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.noSQL queriesA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsApache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
RESTful HTTP APIgRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Python
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
Java
Python
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesuser defined functionsnono
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardinghorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingShardingnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication in MPP-ClusterMulti-source replicationyesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsKerberos/HDFS data loadingnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency in MPP-ClusterImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infonot needed in graphsyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDyesnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesnoyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, using Linux fsyncyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesIdentity management, authentication, and access controlnono

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