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System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. Graphite vs. RDF4J vs. TinkerGraph

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NameAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualizationData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Time Series DBMSRDF storeGraph DBMS
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Score0.29
Rank#303  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#14  RDF stores
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.13
Rank#345  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitecambridgesemantics.com/­anzographgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webrdf4j.orgtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationdocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmgraphite.readthedocs.iordf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperCambridge SemanticsChris DavisSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release2018200620042009
Current release2.3, January 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
Unix
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyesyes infoRDF Schemasschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnonoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.nonono
APIs and other access methodsApache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
HTTP API
Sockets
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
PHP
Python
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesnoyesno
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication in MPP-Clusternonenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsKerberos/HDFS data loadingnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency in MPP-Clusternonenone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infonot needed in graphsnoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as welloptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesnonono

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