DBMS > AnzoGraph DB vs. Graph Engine vs. Hive vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Sadas Engine

System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. Graph Engine vs. Hive vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Sadas Engine

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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

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.61
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Score	61.17
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Website

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

www.graphengine.io

hive.apache.org

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.sadasengine.com

Technical documentation

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

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

Cambridge Semantics

Microsoft

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Microsoft

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

2018

2010

2012

2014

2006

Current release

2.3, January 2021

3.1.3, April 2022

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

.NET and C

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

.NET

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Python

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

C++
Java
PHP
Python

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

JavaScript

Triggers

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

selectable replication factor

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Kerberos/HDFS data loading

yes

query execution via MapReduce

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency in MPP-Cluster

Eventual Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

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

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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