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System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. Quasardb vs. Sphinx vs. TimesTen vs. VelocityDB

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NameAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualizationDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to OracleA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Time Series DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.29
Rank#303  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#14  RDF stores
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score1.36
Rank#161  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Websitecambridgesemantics.com/­anzographquasar.aisphinxsearch.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.htmlvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationdocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmdoc.quasar.ai/­mastersphinxsearch.com/­docsdocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1velocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperCambridge SemanticsquasardbSphinx Technologies Inc.Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005VelocityDB Inc
Initial release20182009200119982011
Current release2.3, January 20213.14.1, January 20243.5.1, February 202311 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)7.x
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree trial version availablecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++C#
Server operating systemsLinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infointeger and binarynoyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyes infowith tagsyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.SQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yesno
APIs and other access methodsApache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
HTTP APIProprietary protocolJDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
.Net
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesnonoPL/SQLno
TriggersnonononoCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication in MPP-ClusterSource-replica replication with selectable replication factornoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsKerberos/HDFS data loadingwith Hadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency in MPP-ClusterImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infonot needed in graphsnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using LevelDByes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes infoby means of logfiles and checkpointsyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoTransient modeyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardBased on Windows Authentication

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