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DBMS > AnzoGraph DB vs. IBM Db2 vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Teradata Aster

System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. IBM Db2 vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Teradata Aster

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NameAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionScalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualizationCommon in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/LinuxSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentPlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDBSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.23
Rank#307  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score128.46
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Websitecambridgesemantics.com/­anzographwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2azure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­search
Technical documentationdocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2learn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­search
DeveloperCambridge SemanticsIBMMicrosoftTeradata
Initial release20181983 infohost version20152005
Current release2.3, January 202112.1, October 2016V1
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree trial version availablecommercial infofree version is availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC and C++
Server operating systemsLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
hostedLinux
Data schemeSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.nonoyes infoin Aster File Store
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.yesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsApache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Python
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesyesnoR packages
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux VersionSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication in MPP-Clusteryes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)yes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsKerberos/HDFS data loadingnonoyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Framework
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency in MPP-ClusterImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infonot needed in graphsyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousing Azure authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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