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System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. GridGain vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. MySQL vs. Valentina Server

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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

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

Widely used open source RDBMS

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	1.55
Rank	#150	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#70	Relational DBMS

Score	76.78
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Website

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

www.gridgain.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

www.mysql.com

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

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

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

dev.mysql.com/doc

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Cambridge Semantics

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Microsoft

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2018

2007

2010

1995

1999

Current release

2.3, January 2021

GridGain 8.5.1

V12

8.4.0, April 2024

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Python

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

Transact SQL

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

yes (replicated cache)

yes, with always 3 replicas available

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Kerberos/HDFS data loading

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency in MPP-Cluster

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

not needed in graphs

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Security Hooks for custom implementations

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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