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DBMS > AnzoGraph DB vs. MonetDB vs. PostGIS vs. QuestDB

System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. MonetDB vs. PostGIS vs. QuestDB

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NameAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualizationA relational database management system that stores data in columnsSpatial extension of PostgreSQLA high performance open source SQL database for time series data
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational 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
Score1.72
Rank#135  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score20.16
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score2.81
Rank#98  Overall
#7  Time Series DBMS
Websitecambridgesemantics.com/­anzographwww.monetdb.orgpostgis.netquestdb.io
Technical documentationdocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationpostgis.net/­documentationquestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperCambridge SemanticsMonetDB BVQuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release2018200420052014
Current release2.3, January 2021Dec2023 (11.49), December 20233.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCCJava (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemsLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyesyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.yes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsyesSQL with time-series extensions
APIs and other access methodsApache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Python
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesyes, in SQL, C, Ruser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingSharding via remote tablesyes infobased on PostgreSQLhorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication in MPP-Clusternone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusyes infobased on PostgreSQLSource-replica replication with eventual consistency
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 ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infonot needed in graphsyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID for single-table writes
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 infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infobased on PostgreSQL
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