DBMS > AnzoGraph DB vs. H2GIS vs. MariaDB vs. Rockset vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. H2GIS vs. MariaDB vs. Rockset vs. TinkerGraph

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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

Spatial extension of H2

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	0.23
Rank	#307	Overall
	#24	Graph DBMS
	#13	RDF stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	93.21
Rank	#13	Overall
	#9	Relational DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#348	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

www.h2gis.org

mariadb.com

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org

Site of MariaDB Foundation

rockset.com

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

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

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Cambridge Semantics

CNRS

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server)

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

Rockset

Initial release

2018

2013

2009

Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995

2019

2009

Current release

2.3, January 2021

11.3.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

hosted

Data scheme

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

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

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

with proprietary extensions

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP REST

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Python

Java

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

yes

based on H2

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

none

several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding

Automatic sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

yes

based on H2

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Kerberos/HDFS data loading

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency in MPP-Cluster

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

not needed in graphs

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

yes

optional

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

with MEMORY storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

yes

based on H2

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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