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DBMS > AnzoGraph DB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Spark SQL vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Spark SQL vs. VelocityDB

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NameAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualizationElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
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Score0.27
Rank#302  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score22.71
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score19.15
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#347  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Websitecambridgesemantics.com/­anzographazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsspark.apache.org/­sqlvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationdocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmlvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperCambridge SemanticsMicrosoftApache Software FoundationVelocityDB Inc
Initial release2018201620142011
Current release2.3, January 20213.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20237.x
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree trial version availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++ScalaC#
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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 indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.yesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsApache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
.Net
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Python
C#
Java
PHP
Java
Python
R
Scala
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesTransact SQLnono
TriggersnononoCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingSharding, horizontal partitioningyes, utilizing Spark CoreSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication in MPP-Clusteryesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsKerberos/HDFS data loadingnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency in MPP-ClusterImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infonot needed in graphsno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesyesnoBased on Windows Authentication

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