DBMS > AnzoGraph DB vs. GigaSpaces vs. SAP HANA vs. TimesTen vs. Transwarp Hippo

System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. GigaSpaces vs. SAP HANA vs. TimesTen vs. Transwarp Hippo

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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

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Cloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.23
Rank	#307	Overall
	#24	Graph DBMS
	#13	RDF stores

Score	0.97
Rank	#192	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#13	Vector DBMS

Website

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

www.gigaspaces.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

www.transwarp.cn/en/subproduct/hippo

Technical documentation

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

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

help.sap.com/hana

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Cambridge Semantics

Gigaspaces Technologies

SAP

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2018

2000

2010

1998

2023

Current release

2.3, January 2021

15.5, September 2020

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

1.0, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

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.

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Python

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

C++
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

yes

SQLScript, R

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes, event driven architecture

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

Sharding

yes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Kerberos/HDFS data loading

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency in MPP-Cluster

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

Role-based access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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