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System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. Ingres vs. RocksDB vs. VelocityDB vs. YDB

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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

Well established RDBMS

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

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

A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	4.11
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.35
Rank	#278	Overall
	#43	Document stores
	#127	Relational DBMS

Website

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

rocksdb.org

velocitydb.com

github.com/ydb-platform/ydb
ydb.tech

Technical documentation

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

docs.actian.com/ingres

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

ydb.tech/en/docs

Developer

Cambridge Semantics

Actian Corporation

Facebook, Inc.

VelocityDB Inc

Yandex

Initial release

2018

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2013

2011

2019

Current release

2.3, January 2021

11.2, May 2022

8.11.4, April 2024

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Any that supports .NET

Linux

Data scheme

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

schema-free

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

SQL-like query language (YQL)

APIs and other access methods

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

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

C++ API
Java API

.Net

RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

.Net

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

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

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

Ingres Replicator

yes

Active-passive shard 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

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

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

Access rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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