DBMS > AnzoGraph DB vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. VictoriaMetrics

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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

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

A fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	0.18
Rank	#315	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	807.76
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	1.23
Rank	#165	Overall
	#15	Time Series DBMS

Website

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

victoriametrics.com

Technical documentation

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

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

docs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/wiki

Developer

Cambridge Semantics

IBM

Microsoft

VictoriaMetrics

Initial release

2018

2017

1989

2018

Current release

2.3, January 2021

2.0

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

v1.91, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Python

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

yes

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

Sharding

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

Active-active shard replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Synchronous replication

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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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

No - written data is immutable

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

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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