DBMS > AnzoGraph DB vs. MySQL vs. RDF4J vs. Rockset vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. MySQL vs. RDF4J vs. Rockset vs. SpatiaLite

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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

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

RDF store

Document store

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.22
Rank	#301	Overall
	#26	Graph DBMS
	#14	RDF stores

Score	1017.80
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.82
Rank	#208	Overall
	#7	RDF stores

Score	0.99
Rank	#185	Overall
	#31	Document stores

Score	1.50
Rank	#144	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

www.mysql.com

rdf4j.org

rockset.com

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

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

dev.mysql.com/doc

rdf4j.org/documentation

docs.rockset.com

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Cambridge Semantics

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Rockset

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2018

1995

2004

2019

2008

Current release

2.3, January 2021

9.0.0, July 2024

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

hosted

server-less

Data scheme

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

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

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.

yes

with proprietary extensions

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

yes

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

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

HTTP REST

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

Java
PHP
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

none

Automatic sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

yes

none

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

Eventual 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

Isolation support depends on the API used

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 storage is supported as well

yes

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 and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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