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System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. Hypertable vs. Spark SQL vs. SQLite vs. Transbase

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is 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

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

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	18.96
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

spark.apache.org/sql

www.sqlite.org

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

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

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Cambridge Semantics

Hypertable Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2018

2009

2014

2000

1987

Current release

2.3, January 2021

0.9.8.11, March 2016

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Public Domain

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

C++ API
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Python

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
Python
R
Scala

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

Sharding

yes, utilizing Spark Core

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

selectable replication factor on file system level

none

Source-replica replication

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

not needed in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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