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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

A high performance open source SQL database for time series data

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.25
Rank	#325	Overall
	#33	Graph DBMS
	#18	RDF stores

Score	1.89
Rank	#146	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.57
Rank	#87	Overall
	#13	Key-value stores

Website

www.cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

questdb.io

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

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

questdb.io/docs/introduction

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Cambridge Semantics

QuestDB Limited

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2018

2014

2013

Current release

2.3, January 2021

7.10.2, March 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

schema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Python

PostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

over HTTP

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

Configurable consistency for N replicas

yes

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

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID for single-table writes

yes

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

through memory mapped files

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

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Specific characteristics

Relational model with native time series support Column based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantages

Real-time data ingestion and istant SQL queries for time series High performance...
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Typical application scenarios

Application metrics Financial market data and algo trading DevOps monitoring Real-time...
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Licensing and pricing models

Apache 2.0.
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News

The Inner Workings of Distributed Databases
28 March 2023

Migrating from Relational Databases to Time-series Databases
24 March 2023

MongoDB Time Series Benchmark and Review
20 March 2023

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9 March 2023

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2 March 2023

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