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System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. Graphite vs. InfluxDB vs. OpenSearch

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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

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

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

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Time Series DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.29
Rank	#303	Overall
	#25	Graph DBMS
	#14	RDF stores

Score	4.83
Rank	#67	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	24.39
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

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

graphite.readthedocs.io

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Cambridge Semantics

Chris Davis

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

2018

2006

2013

2021

Current release

2.3, January 2021

2.7.6, April 2024

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Unix

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data only

Numeric data and Strings

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 search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP API
Sockets

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

none

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

none

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

yes

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

none

Eventual Consistency

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

not needed in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Depending on used storage engine

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

simple rights management via user accounts

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