DBMS > AnzoGraph DB vs. Google BigQuery vs. NSDb vs. OpenSearch vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. Google BigQuery vs. NSDb vs. OpenSearch vs. SwayDB

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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

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Website

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

cloud.google.com/bigquery

nsdb.io

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

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

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

nsdb.io/Architecture

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Cambridge Semantics

Google

Amazon Web Services

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2018

2010

2017

2021

2018

Current release

2.3, January 2021

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Scala

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux
macOS

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

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

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Python

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

yes

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

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

not needed in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

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 privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

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Competitive advantages

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