DBMS > AnzoGraph DB vs. Netezza vs. RethinkDB vs. Snowflake vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. Netezza vs. RethinkDB vs. Snowflake 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

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.27
Rank	#302	Overall
	#24	Graph DBMS
	#13	RDF stores

Score	10.18
Rank	#46	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	2.84
Rank	#106	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	123.20
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

rethinkdb.com

www.snowflake.com

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

Technical documentation

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

rethinkdb.com/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

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

Developer

Cambridge Semantics

IBM

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2018

2000

2009

2014

2008

Current release

2.3, January 2021

2.4.1, August 2020

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

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++

Server operating systems

Linux

included in appliance

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

server-less

Data scheme

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Python

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

Sharding

range based

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

Source-replica replication

yes

none

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

not needed in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

yes

users and table-level permissions

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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