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System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. Geode vs. RDF4J

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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

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Key-value store

RDF store

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Score	0.27
Rank	#302	Overall
	#24	Graph DBMS
	#13	RDF stores

Score	1.99
Rank	#133	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	0.71
Rank	#231	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

geode.apache.org

rdf4j.org

Technical documentation

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

geode.apache.org/docs

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Cambridge Semantics

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

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Initial release

2018

2002

2004

Current release

2.3, January 2021

1.1, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like query language (OQL)

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

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Python

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

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

Multi-source replication

none

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

not needed in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes, on a single node

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

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

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