DBMS > AnzoGraph DB vs. Riak TS vs. SAP HANA vs. ScyllaDB vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. Riak TS vs. SAP HANA vs. ScyllaDB vs. Transbase

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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

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	0.23
Rank	#307	Overall
	#24	Graph DBMS
	#13	RDF stores

Score	0.20
Rank	#319	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	4.75
Rank	#68	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.scylladb.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

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

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

help.sap.com/hana

docs.scylladb.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Cambridge Semantics

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

SAP

ScyllaDB

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2018

2015

2010

2015

1987

Current release

2.3, January 2021

3.0.0, September 2022

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

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

restricted

yes

cluster global secondary indices

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes, limited

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

compatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Python

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

Erlang

SQLScript, R

yes, Lua

yes

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

selectable replication factor

yes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Kerberos/HDFS data loading

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency in MPP-Cluster

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

not needed in graphs

links between datasets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

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

in-memory tables

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

yes

Access rights for users can be defined per object

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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