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System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. PostGIS vs. Sadas Engine vs. Teradata Aster

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Name

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Scalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualization

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#373	Overall
	#157	Relational DBMS

Website

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

postgis.net

www.sadasengine.com

Technical documentation

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

postgis.net/documentation

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

Cambridge Semantics

SADAS s.r.l.

Teradata

Initial release

2018

2005

2006

2005

Current release

2.3, January 2021

3.4.2, February 2024

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

GPL v2.0

commercial

free trial version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

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

in Aster File Store

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
Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

user defined functions

R packages

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

yes

based on PostgreSQL

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

yes

based on PostgreSQL

none

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Kerberos/HDFS data loading

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency in MPP-Cluster

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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