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DBMS > AnzoGraph DB vs. GBase vs. Ignite vs. OrientDB vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. GBase vs. Ignite vs. OrientDB vs. Titan

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NameAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
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.Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Graph DBMS
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
Score3.11
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score3.25
Rank#89  Overall
#16  Document stores
#6  Graph DBMS
#13  Key-value stores
Websitecambridgesemantics.com/­anzographwww.gbase.cnignite.apache.orgorientdb.orggithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationdocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmapacheignite.readme.io/­docswww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.htmlgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperCambridge SemanticsGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Apache Software FoundationOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAPAurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release20182004201520102012
Current release2.3, January 2021GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8cApache Ignite 2.63.2.29, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree trial version availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonC++, Java, .NetJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyesyesschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")yes
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.noyesyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.Standard with numerous extensionsANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLSQL-like query language, no joinsno
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
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Python
C#C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesuser defined functionsyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)Java, Javascriptyes
Triggersnoyesyes (cache interceptors and events)Hooksyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardingShardingyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication in MPP-Clusteryesyes (replicated cache)Multi-source replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsKerberos/HDFS data loadingyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)no infocould be achieved with distributed queriesyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency in MPP-ClusterImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infonot needed in graphsyesnoyes inforelationship in graphsyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesyesSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurableUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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