DBMS > AnzoGraph DB vs. MaxDB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Snowflake vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. MaxDB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Snowflake vs. Splunk

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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

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

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

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

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

Score	2.26
Rank	#114	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	1.97
Rank	#129	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

maxdb.sap.com

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

www.snowflake.com

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

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

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Cambridge Semantics

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

Oracle

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2018

1984

2007

2014

2003

Current release

2.3, January 2021

7.9.10.12, February 2024

14.1, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

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

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

schema-free

yes

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

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

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

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

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Python

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

.Net
C++
Java

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Live Events

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

none

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

Source-replica replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

yes

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Kerberos/HDFS data loading

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency in MPP-Cluster

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate 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

configurable

ACID

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

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

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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

Access rights for users and roles

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