DBMS > AnzoGraph DB vs. MySQL vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. SpaceTime vs. YugabyteDB

System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. MySQL vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. SpaceTime vs. YugabyteDB

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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 drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Document store

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Wide column store

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Score	0.29
Rank	#303	Overall
	#25	Graph DBMS
	#14	RDF stores

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.60
Rank	#246	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.63
Rank	#109	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

www.mysql.com

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

www.mireo.com/spacetime

www.yugabyte.com

Technical documentation

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

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

docs.yugabyte.com
github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db

Developer

Cambridge Semantics

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Percona

Mireo

Yugabyte Inc.

Initial release

2018

1995

2015

2020

2017

Current release

2.3, January 2021

8.4.0, April 2024

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

2.19, September 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

GPL Version 2

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

schema-free

yes

depending on used data model

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

yes, PostgreSQL compatible

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

proprietary protocol using JSON

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL

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

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

C#
C++
Python

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

yes

proprietary syntax

JavaScript

yes

sql, plpgsql, C

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Hash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

Based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability

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

Immediate Consistency

Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads

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

Distributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.

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

based on RocksDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

via In-Memory Engine

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 and roles

yes

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

Apache 2.0 license for the database
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