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DBMS > AnzoGraph DB vs. GridGain vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. QuestDB vs. Valentina Server

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

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NameAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualizationGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataObject-relational database and reports server
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score0.29
Rank#303  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#14  RDF stores
Score1.55
Rank#150  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#70  Relational DBMS
Score76.78
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#325  Overall
#144  Relational DBMS
Websitecambridgesemantics.com/­anzographwww.gridgain.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databasequestdb.iowww.valentina-db.net
Technical documentationdocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmldocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqlquestdb.io/­docsvalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
DeveloperCambridge SemanticsGridGain Systems, Inc.MicrosoftQuestDB Technology IncParadigma Software
Initial release20182007201020141999
Current release2.3, January 2021GridGain 8.5.1V125.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree trial version availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetC++Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyesyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.noyesyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyesSQL with time-series extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsApache 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
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Python
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)Transact SQLnoyes
Triggersnoyes (cache interceptors and events)yesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingShardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication in MPP-Clusteryes (replicated cache)yes, with always 3 replicas availableSource-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsKerberos/HDFS data loadingyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency in MPP-ClusterImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infonot needed in graphsnoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID for single-table writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infothrough memory mapped filesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
AnzoGraph DBGridGainMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL AzureQuestDBValentina Server
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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