DBMS > AnzoGraph DB vs. RocksDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Splice Machine

System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. RocksDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Splice Machine

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded 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

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

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#250	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Website

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

rocksdb.org

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

splicemachine.com

Technical documentation

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

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

Developer

Cambridge Semantics

Facebook, Inc.

Sybase, SAP

SAP

formerly Sybase

Splice Machine

Initial release

2018

2013

1993

1992

2014

Current release

2.3, January 2021

8.11.4, April 2024

17, July 2015

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

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.

yes

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

C++ API
Java API

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Delphi
Perl
PHP

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

yes

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

yes

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Kerberos/HDFS data loading

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

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

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

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