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System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. Hazelcast vs. PouchDB vs. Sphinx vs. STSdb

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NameAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualizationA widely adopted in-memory data gridJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Key-value storeDocument storeSearch engineKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.29
Rank#303  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#14  RDF stores
Score5.46
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Key-value stores
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websitecambridgesemantics.com/­anzographhazelcast.compouchdb.comsphinxsearch.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docspouchdb.com/­guidessphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperCambridge SemanticsHazelcastApache Software FoundationSphinx Technologies Inc.STS Soft SC
Initial release20182008201220012011
Current release2.3, January 20215.3.6, November 20237.1.1, June 20193.5.1, February 20234.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScriptC++C#
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Windows
Data schemeSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonoyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.noyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategyno
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infovia viewsyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.SQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)no
APIs and other access methodsApache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Proprietary protocol.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Python
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
JavaScriptC++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor ServicesView functions in JavaScriptnono
Triggersnoyes infoEventsyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication in MPP-Clusteryes infoReplicated MapMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
nonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsKerberos/HDFS data loadingyesyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency in MPP-ClusterImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infonot needed in graphsnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitednonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesRole-based access controlnonono

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