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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

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Key-value store

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

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Score	0.18
Rank	#314	Overall
	#26	Graph DBMS
	#15	RDF stores

Score	5.55
Rank	#57	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Score	2.90
Rank	#87	Overall
	#7	Vector DBMS

Website

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

hazelcast.com

milvus.io

Technical documentation

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

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

Developer

Cambridge Semantics

Hazelcast

Initial release

2018

2008

2019

Current release

2.3, January 2021

5.3.6, November 2023

2.4.4, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Go

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

Data scheme

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

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

the object must implement a serialization strategy

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

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

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Python

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

Triggers

yes

Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

yes

Replicated Map

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 selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

not needed in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

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

Role-based access control

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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