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DBMS > AnzoGraph DB vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Graphite vs. MonetDB

System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Graphite vs. MonetDB

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NameAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualizationGoogle's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.Cloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperA relational database management system that stores data in columns
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Key-value store
Wide column store
Document storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.23
Rank#307  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score3.26
Rank#92  Overall
#13  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score7.85
Rank#51  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Websitecambridgesemantics.com/­anzographcloud.google.com/­bigtablefirebase.google.com/­products/­firestoregithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.monetdb.org
Technical documentationdocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docsfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoregraphite.readthedocs.iowww.monetdb.org/­Documentation
DeveloperCambridge SemanticsGoogleGoogleChris DavisMonetDB BV
Initial release20182015201720062004
Current release2.3, January 2021Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree trial version availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnono
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Implementation languagePythonC
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedhostedLinux
Unix
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesNumeric data onlyyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesnonoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.nononoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensions
APIs and other access methodsApache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Sockets
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Python
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesnoyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsnoyes, in SQL, C, R
Triggersnonoyes, with Cloud Functionsnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingShardingShardingnoneSharding via remote tables
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication in MPP-ClusterInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesMulti-source replicationnonenone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental status
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsKerberos/HDFS data loadingyesUsing Cloud Dataflownono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency in MPP-ClusterImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Immediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infonot needed in graphsnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic single-row operationsyesnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infolockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.nofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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