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DBMS > AnzoGraph DB vs. GBase vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Ignite vs. InterSystems Caché

System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. GBase vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Ignite vs. InterSystems Caché

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NameAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionScalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualizationWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesApache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.A multi-model DBMS and application server
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.29
Rank#303  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#14  RDF stores
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#309  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score3.11
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Websitecambridgesemantics.com/­anzographwww.gbase.cnwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storeignite.apache.orgwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cache
Technical documentationdocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storeapacheignite.readme.io/­docsdocs.intersystems.com
DeveloperCambridge SemanticsGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.IBMApache Software FoundationInterSystems
Initial release20182004201720151997
Current release2.3, January 2021GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c2.0Apache Ignite 2.62018.1.4, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree trial version availablecommercialcommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonC and C++C++, Java, .Net
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyesyesyesdepending on used data model
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.noyesnoyesyes
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.Standard with numerous extensionsyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyes
APIs and other access methodsApache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Python
C#C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesuser defined functionsyesyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yes
Triggersnoyesnoyes (cache interceptors and events)yes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication in MPP-ClusteryesActive-active shard replicationyes (replicated cache)Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsKerberos/HDFS data loadingnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)no
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency in MPP-ClusterImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infonot needed in graphsyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesNo - written data is immutableyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyes
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 rolesyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsAccess rights for users, groups and roles

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