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DBMS > AnzoGraph DB vs. PostGIS vs. Spark SQL vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. PostGIS vs. Spark SQL vs. Trafodion

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NameAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionScalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualizationSpatial extension of PostgreSQLSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Spatial DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.23
Rank#307  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitecambridgesemantics.com/­anzographpostgis.netspark.apache.org/­sqltrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationdocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmpostgis.net/­documentationspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmltrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperCambridge SemanticsApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release2018200520142014
Current release2.3, January 20213.4.2, February 20243.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20232.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCScalaC++, Java
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.yesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes
APIs and other access methodsApache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Python
Java
Python
R
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesuser defined functionsnoJava Stored Procedures
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingyes infobased on PostgreSQLyes, utilizing Spark CoreSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication in MPP-Clusteryes infobased on PostgreSQLnoneyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsKerberos/HDFS data loadingnoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency in MPP-ClusterImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infonot needed in graphsyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesyes infobased on PostgreSQLnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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