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System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. SWC-DB vs. YugabyteDB

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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

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Wide column store

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Score	0.22
Rank	#302	Overall
	#24	Graph DBMS
	#13	RDF stores

Score	2.85
Rank	#95	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	0.01
Rank	#378	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	2.48
Rank	#108	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

www.yugabyte.com

Technical documentation

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

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

docs.yugabyte.com
github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db

Developer

Cambridge Semantics

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Alex Kashirin

Yugabyte Inc.

Initial release

2018

2010

2020

2017

Current release

2.3, January 2021

0.5, April 2021

2.19, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

schema-free

depending on used data model

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like query language

yes, PostgreSQL compatible

APIs and other access methods

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

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C++

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

sql, plpgsql, C

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

Sharding

Hash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability

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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

not needed in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

Distributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

based on RocksDB

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 rights for users can be defined per database

yes

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

Apache 2.0 license for the database
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