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System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. HBase vs. PostGIS vs. Quasardb vs. Riak KV

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NameAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualizationWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableSpatial extension of PostgreSQLDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseDistributed, fault tolerant key-value store
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Wide column storeSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.29
Rank#303  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#14  RDF stores
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websitecambridgesemantics.com/­anzographhbase.apache.orgpostgis.netquasar.ai
Technical documentationdocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmhbase.apache.org/­book.htmlpostgis.net/­documentationdoc.quasar.ai/­masterwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperCambridge SemanticsApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetquasardbOpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release20182008200520092009
Current release2.3, January 20212.3.4, January 20213.4.2, February 20243.14.1, January 20243.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoGPL v2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise edition
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCC++Erlang
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemeSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportschema-free, schema definition possibleyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyes infointeger and binaryno
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes infowith tagsrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.noyesSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsApache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
HTTP APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Python
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesyes infoCoprocessors in Javauser defined functionsnoErlang
Triggersnoyesyesnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication in MPP-ClusterMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infobased on PostgreSQLSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsKerberos/HDFS data loadingyesnowith Hadoop integrationyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency in MPP-ClusterImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infonot needed in graphsnoyesnono infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACyes infobased on PostgreSQLCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailyes, using Riak Security

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