DBMS > AnzoGraph DB vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Solr vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Solr vs. SQLite

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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

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

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

A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial 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	42.91
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

rocksdb.org

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

solr.apache.org

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

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

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

solr.apache.org/resources.html

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Cambridge Semantics

Facebook, Inc.

SAP

formerly Sybase

Apache Software Foundation

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2018

2013

1992

2006

2000

Current release

2.3, January 2021

8.11.4, April 2024

17, July 2015

9.6.0, April 2024

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

runs as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)

server-less

Data scheme

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

schema-free

yes

Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

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

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

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

.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

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

Java plugins

Triggers

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Kerberos/HDFS data loading

spark-solr: github.com/lucidworks/spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency in MPP-Cluster

Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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

optimistic locking

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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