DBMS > AnzoGraph DB vs. MaxDB vs. OpenTSDB vs. Prometheus vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. MaxDB vs. OpenTSDB vs. Prometheus vs. Snowflake

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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

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

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

Score	2.32
Rank	#112	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#146	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	8.42
Rank	#47	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

Technical documentation

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

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

prometheus.io/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Cambridge Semantics

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2018

1984

2011

2015

2014

Current release

2.3, January 2021

7.9.10.12, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

LGPL

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

Numeric data only

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.

Import of XML data possible

yes

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
ODBC
WebDAV

HTTP API
Telnet API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Python

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

yes

by Federation

yes

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

based on HBase

none

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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