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System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. Lovefield vs. Riak TS vs. Sphinx vs. WakandaDB

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NameAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualizationEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesWakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engineObject oriented DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.29
Rank#303  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#14  RDF stores
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#307  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.10
Rank#356  Overall
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitecambridgesemantics.com/­anzographgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldsphinxsearch.comwakanda.github.io
Technical documentationdocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latestsphinxsearch.com/­docswakanda.github.io/­doc
DeveloperCambridge SemanticsGoogleOpen Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesSphinx Technologies Inc.Wakanda SAS
Initial release20182014201520012012
Current release2.3, January 20212.1.12, February 20173.0.0, September 20223.5.1, February 20232.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptErlangC++C++, JavaScript
Server operating systemsLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinux
OS X
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonoyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesrestrictedyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.SQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternyes, limitedSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)no
APIs and other access methodsApache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Proprietary protocolRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Python
JavaScriptC infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesnoErlangnoyes
TriggersnoUsing read-only observersyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingnoneShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication in MPP-Clusternoneselectable replication factornonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsKerberos/HDFS data loadingnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency in MPP-ClusterEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infonot needed in graphsyesno infolinks between datasets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infousing MemoryDBno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesnononoyes

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