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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

Widely used open source RDBMS

A distributed, high available RDBMS compatible with Oracle and MySQL

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Wide column store

Document store
RDF store

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Score	0.22
Rank	#302	Overall
	#24	Graph DBMS
	#13	RDF stores

Score	1029.49
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	1.97
Rank	#119	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#311	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

www.mysql.com

en.oceanbase.com

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

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

dev.mysql.com/doc

en.oceanbase.com/docs/oceanbase-database

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Cambridge Semantics

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

OceanBase

previously Alibaba and Ant Group

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2018

1995

2010

2018

Current release

2.3, January 2021

9.0.0, July 2024

4.3.0, April 2024

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Commercial license available

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

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

with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

Apache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary native API
Table API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Python

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Ada

in MySQL-compatible model
C

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
C++

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
D

in MySQL-compatible model
Delphi

in MySQL-compatible model
Eiffel

in MySQL-compatible model
Erlang

in MySQL-compatible model
Haskell

in MySQL-compatible model
Java

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
JavaScript (Node.js)

in MySQL-compatible model
Objective-C

in MySQL-compatible model
OCaml

in MySQL-compatible model
Perl

in MySQL-compatible model
PHP

in MySQL-compatible model
Python

in MySQL-compatible model
Ruby

in MySQL-compatible model
Scheme

in MySQL-compatible model
Tcl

in MySQL-compatible model

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

yes

proprietary syntax

PL/SQL in oracle-compatible mode, MySQL Stored Procedure in mysql-compatible mode

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

horizontal partitioning (by hash, key, range, range columns, list, and list columns)

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication using Paxos

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Kerberos/HDFS data loading

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency in MPP-Cluster

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

not needed in graphs

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

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