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System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Sphinx vs. UniData,UniVerse

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NameAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonUniData,UniVerse  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualizationSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesMultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Search engineSearch engineMultivalue DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.22
Rank#302  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score5.75
Rank#58  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score5.97
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score2.25
Rank#112  Overall
#2  Multivalue DBMS
Websitecambridgesemantics.com/­anzographazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchsphinxsearch.comwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-unidata
Technical documentationdocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchsphinxsearch.com/­docsdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata
DeveloperCambridge SemanticsMicrosoftSphinx Technologies Inc.Rocket Software
Initial release2018201520011985
Current release2.3, January 2021V13.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree trial version availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++C
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnooptional
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.nono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.noSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsApache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
RESTful HTTP APIProprietary protocolJava API infoJPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
.Net
Basic infoU2 Basic
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesnonoyes
Triggersnononoyes infoU2 Basic
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding 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-Clusteryes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsKerberos/HDFS data loadingnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency in MPP-ClusterImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infonot needed in graphsnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID infoconfigurable
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes 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.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesyes infousing Azure authenticationnoAccess rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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