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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

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

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Score	0.27
Rank	#302	Overall
	#24	Graph DBMS
	#13	RDF stores

Score	127.49
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#347	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Website

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

www.ibm.com/products/db2

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

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

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Cambridge Semantics

IBM

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2018

1983

host version

2011

Current release

2.3, January 2021

12.1, October 2016

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

commercial

free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

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.

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

.Net

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Python

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

yes

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Kerberos/HDFS data loading

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Based on Windows Authentication

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