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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. AllegroGraph vs. atoti vs. Cassandra vs. TigerGraph

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonatoti  Xexclude from comparisonCassandra  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSAn in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB infoOptimized for write accessA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time
Primary database modelWide column storeDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Object oriented DBMSWide column storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSVector DBMS infostarting with release V5
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Score0.31
Rank#297  Overall
#11  Wide column stores
Score1.13
Rank#179  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#7  Vector DBMS
Score0.61
Rank#243  Overall
#10  Object oriented DBMS
Score98.83
Rank#12  Overall
#1  Wide column stores
Score1.80
Rank#138  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storeallegrograph.comatoti.iocassandra.apache.orgwww.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestorefranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmldocs.atoti.iocassandra.apache.org/­doc/­latestdocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperAlibabaFranz Inc.ActiveViamApache Software Foundation infoApache top level project, originally developped by Facebook
Initial release2016200420082017
Current release8.0, December 20234.1.3, July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoLimited community edition freecommercial infofree versions availableOpen Source infoApache version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoRDF schemasschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nono infobulk load of XML files possiblenono
Secondary indexesnoyesrestricted infoonly equality queries, not always the best performing solution
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSPARQL is used as query languageMultidimensional Expressions (MDX)SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)SQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
Proprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoJavaScript or Common LispPythonnoyes
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicewith FederationSharding, horizontal partitioningSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possible
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACIDno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationAccess rights for users can be defined per objectRole-based access control
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Alibaba Cloud Table StoreAllegroGraphatotiCassandraTigerGraph
Specific characteristicsKnowledge Graph Platform Leader FedShard - Designed for Entity-Event Knowledge Graph...
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Apache Cassandra is the leading NoSQL, distributed database management system, well...
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Competitive advantagesAllegroGraph is uniquely suited to support adhoc queries through SPARQL, Prolog and...
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No single point of failure ensures 100% availability . Operational simplicity for...
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Typical application scenariosInternet of Things (IOT), fraud detection applications, recommendation engines, product...
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Key customersApple, Netflix, Uber, ING,, Intuit,Fidelity, NY Times, Outbrain, BazaarVoice, Best...
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Market metricsCassandra is used by 40% of the Fortune 100.
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache license  Pricing for commercial distributions provided by DataStax and available...
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