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System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. H2 vs. Sphinx vs. SQL.JS

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NameAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  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.Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesPort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.23
Rank#307  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.53
Rank#252  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Websitecambridgesemantics.com/­anzographwww.h2database.comsphinxsearch.comsql.js.org
Technical documentationdocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlsphinxsearch.com/­docssql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperCambridge SemanticsThomas MuellerSphinx Technologies Inc.Alon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release2018200520012012
Current release2.3, January 20212.2.220, July 20233.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaC++JavaScript
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes
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 indexesnoyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.yesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsApache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocolJavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Python
JavaC++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsnono
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednone
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 databasenonenone
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-ClusterImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infonot needed in graphsyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.no infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono

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