DBMS > AnzoGraph DB vs. Kingbase vs. LMDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. UniData,UniVerse

System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. Kingbase vs. LMDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. UniData,UniVerse

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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

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

A high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database library

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Multivalue DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.29
Rank	#303	Overall
	#25	Graph DBMS
	#14	RDF stores

Score	0.50
Rank	#257	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Score	2.09
Rank	#121	Overall
	#20	Key-value stores

Score	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	2.85
Rank	#98	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Website

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

www.kingbase.com.cn

www.symas.com/symas-embedded-database-lmdb

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

Technical documentation

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

www.lmdb.tech/doc

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

Developer

Cambridge Semantics

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

Symas

Microsoft

Rocket Software

Initial release

2018

1999

2011

2014

1985

Current release

2.3, January 2021

V8.0, August 2021

0.9.32, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux
Unix
Windows

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

optional

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Python

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

user defined functions

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

yes

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Kerberos/HDFS data loading

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency in MPP-Cluster

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

not needed in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

configurable

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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