DBMS > AnzoGraph DB vs. HBase vs. Hypertable vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. HBase vs. Hypertable vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. TempoIQ

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Scalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualization

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Website

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

hbase.apache.org

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

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

hbase.apache.org/book.html

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

Developer

Cambridge Semantics

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Hypertable Inc.

Microsoft

TempoIQ

Initial release

2018

2008

2009

1989

2012

Current release

2.3, January 2021

2.3.4, January 2021

0.9.8.11, March 2016

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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

Secondary indexes

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

C++ API
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Python

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

yes

Coprocessors in Java

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

Sharding

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor on file system level

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Kerberos/HDFS data loading

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency in MPP-Cluster

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

not needed in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple authentication-based access control

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