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System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. ObjectBox 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

Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectors

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

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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

Score	1.08
Rank	#179	Overall
	#6	Object oriented DBMS
	#9	Vector DBMS

Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	1.56
Rank	#142	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

www.snowflake.com

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

Technical documentation

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

docs.objectbox.io

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

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

Developer

Cambridge Semantics

ObjectBox Limited

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2018

2017

2014

2008

Current release

2.3, January 2021

4.0 (May 2024)

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

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++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

hosted

server-less

Data scheme

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

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

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, plus "flex" map-like 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.

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

Proprietary native API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Python

C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

none

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

Data sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

not needed in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

yes

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

More information provided by the system vendor

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18 June 2024

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29 May 2024

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