DBMS > AnzoGraph DB vs. Fauna vs. Hypertable vs. OpenSearch vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. Fauna vs. Hypertable vs. OpenSearch vs. Snowflake

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Scalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualization

Fauna 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.

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

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

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Wide column store

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#14	Graph DBMS
	#71	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

fauna.com

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.fauna.com

opensearch.org/docs/latest

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Cambridge Semantics

Fauna, Inc.

Hypertable Inc.

Amazon Web Services

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2018

2014

2009

2021

2014

Current release

2.3, January 2021

0.9.8.11, March 2016

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

commercial

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Data scheme

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

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

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

RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Thrift

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Python

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

user defined functions

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor on file system level

yes

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

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

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

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

Identity management, authentication, and access control

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

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