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System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. Geode vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. MySQL

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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

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Widely used open source RDBMS

Primary database model

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.22
Rank	#302	Overall
	#24	Graph DBMS
	#13	RDF stores

Score	1.51
Rank	#147	Overall
	#25	Key-value stores

Score	5.75
Rank	#58	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	1029.49
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Website

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

geode.apache.org

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

www.mysql.com

Technical documentation

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

geode.apache.org/docs

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

dev.mysql.com/doc

Developer

Cambridge Semantics

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

Microsoft

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Initial release

2018

2002

2015

1995

Current release

2.3, January 2021

1.1, February 2017

9.0.0, July 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

schema-free

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like query language (OQL)

yes

with proprietary extensions

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

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Python

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

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

user defined functions

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

Multi-source replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

not needed in graphs

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes, on a single node

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

Access rights per client and object definable

yes

using Azure authentication

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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