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System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. Kdb vs. searchxml

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NameAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualizationA horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.High performance Time Series DBMSDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Native XML DBMS
Search engine
Secondary database modelsRelational 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
Score2.89
Rank#103  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Score7.55
Rank#53  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#25  Search engines
Websitecambridgesemantics.com/­anzographcloud.google.com/­spannerkx.comwww.searchxml.net/­category/­products
Technical documentationdocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmcloud.google.com/­spanner/­docscode.kx.comwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperCambridge SemanticsGoogleKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcinformationpartners gmbh
Initial release201820172000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 20032015
Current release2.3, January 20213.6, May 20181.0
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree trial version availablecommercialcommercial infofree 32-bit versioncommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageqC++
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Windows
Data schemeSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.nonoyesyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.yes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011SQL-like query language (q)no
APIs and other access methodsApache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC infoAt present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesnouser defined functionsyes infoon the application server
Triggersnonoyes infowith viewsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingShardinghorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication in MPP-ClusterMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.Source-replica replicationyes infosychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsKerberos/HDFS data loadingyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflowno infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency in MPP-ClusterImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infonot needed in graphsyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integrityyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infoStrict serializable isolationnomultiple readers, single writer
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)rights management via user accountsDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services
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Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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