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System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. HBase vs. MySQL vs. STSdb vs. Tigris

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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

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

Widely used open source RDBMS

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

A horizontally scalable, ACID transactional, document database available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Key-value store

Document store
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
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	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Score	0.02
Rank	#369	Overall
	#51	Document stores
	#55	Key-value stores
	#24	Search engines
	#38	Time Series DBMS

Website

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

hbase.apache.org

www.mysql.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

www.tigrisdata.com

Technical documentation

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

hbase.apache.org/book.html

dev.mysql.com/doc

www.tigrisdata.com/docs

Developer

Cambridge Semantics

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

STS Soft SC

Tigris Data, Inc.

Initial release

2018

2008

1995

2011

2022

Current release

2.3, January 2021

2.3.4, January 2021

8.4.0, April 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

options to bring your own types, AVRO

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

with proprietary extensions

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

.NET Client API

CLI Client
gRPC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Python

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

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

C#
Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

yes

Coprocessors in Java

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

yes

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

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using FoundationDB

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Access rights for users and roles

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