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DBMS > AnzoGraph DB vs. H2 vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Kinetica vs. PostGIS

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

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NameAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  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 casesFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational 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
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitecambridgesemantics.com/­anzographwww.h2database.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storewww.kinetica.compostgis.net
Technical documentationdocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storedocs.kinetica.compostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperCambridge SemanticsThomas MuellerIBMKinetica
Initial release20182005201720122005
Current release2.3, January 20212.2.220, July 20232.07.1, August 20213.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercial infofree developer edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++C, C++C
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinux
Data schemeSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyesyesyesyes
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.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.yesyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes
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
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
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsyesuser defined functionsuser defined functions
Triggersnoyesnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingnoneShardingShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQL
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 replicationSource-replica replicationyes infobased on PostgreSQL
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 configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infonot needed in graphsyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonoACID
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 infoGPU vRAM or System RAMno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles on table levelyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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