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System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. H2 vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. InfluxDB vs. Kinetica

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NameAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualizationFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score0.29
Rank#303  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#14  RDF stores
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#309  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Websitecambridgesemantics.com/­anzographwww.h2database.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storewww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.kinetica.com
Technical documentationdocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storedocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbdocs.kinetica.com
DeveloperCambridge SemanticsThomas MuellerIBMKinetica
Initial release20182005201720132012
Current release2.3, January 20212.2.220, July 20232.02.7.6, April 20247.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++GoC, C++
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Linux
Data schemeSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data and Stringsyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.yesyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeSQL-like query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsApache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Python
JavaC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsyesnouser defined functions
Triggersnoyesnonoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingnoneShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlySharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication in MPP-ClusterWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseActive-active shard replicationselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlySource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsKerberos/HDFS data loadingnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency in MPP-ClusterImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infonot needed in graphsyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)No - written data is immutableyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes infoDepending on used storage engineyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAM
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple rights management via user accountsAccess rights for users and roles on table level
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AnzoGraph DBH2IBM Db2 Event StoreInfluxDBKinetica
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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