DBMS > AnzoGraph DB vs. MaxDB vs. Snowflake vs. Splunk vs. StarRocks

System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. MaxDB vs. Snowflake vs. Splunk vs. StarRocks

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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

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

Analytics Platform for Big Data

An open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics

Forked from Apache Doris

Primary database model

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

Score	2.32
Rank	#112	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	1.04
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Website

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

Technical documentation

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

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

docs.starrocks.io/en-us/latest/introduction/StarRocks_intro

Developer

Cambridge Semantics

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

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Splunk Inc.

The Linux Foundation

since Feb 2023

Initial release

2018

1984

2014

2003

2020

Current release

2.3, January 2021

7.9.10.12, February 2024

2.5.3, March 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

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

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

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

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

JDBC
MySQL protocol

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Python

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

yes

user defined functions

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

none

yes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range and hash)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

Source-replica replication

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

not needed in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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

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

Access rights for users and roles

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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