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System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. Geode vs. Interbase vs. Kinetica vs. Snowflake

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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

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

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

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

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.29
Rank	#303	Overall
	#25	Graph DBMS
	#14	RDF stores

Score	1.86
Rank	#134	Overall
	#24	Key-value stores

Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	0.66
Rank	#234	Overall
	#107	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

geode.apache.org

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.kinetica.com

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

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

geode.apache.org/docs

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

docs.kinetica.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Cambridge Semantics

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

Embarcadero

Kinetica

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2018

2002

1984

2012

2014

Current release

2.3, January 2021

1.1, February 2017

InterBase 2020, December 2019

7.1, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

schema-free

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.

export as XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like query language (OQL)

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Python

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

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

user defined functions

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

Sharding

none

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

Multi-source replication

Interbase Change Views

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Kerberos/HDFS data loading

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency in MPP-Cluster

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

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

GPU vRAM or System RAM

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights per client and object definable

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles on table level

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

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