DBMS > AnzoGraph DB vs. NCache vs. SAP HANA vs. SQream DB vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. NCache vs. SAP HANA vs. SQream DB vs. Transbase

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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

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.96
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#224	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

sqream.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

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

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

help.sap.com/hana

docs.sqream.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Cambridge Semantics

Alachisoft

SAP

SQream Technologies

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2018

2005

2010

2017

1987

Current release

2.3, January 2021

5.3.3, April 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

2022.1.6, December 2022

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Python

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

SQLScript, R

user defined functions in Python

yes

Triggers

yes

Notifications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

yes

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

yes, with selectable consistency level

yes

none

Source-replica replication

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

not needed in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Typical application scenarios

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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