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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Altibase vs. Apache Cassandra vs. Greenplum vs. VoltDB

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Name

Description

High performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMS

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

Analytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database

A logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.84
Rank	#204	Overall
	#35	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS
	#7	RDF stores
	#10	Vector DBMS

Score	0.87
Rank	#200	Overall
	#93	Relational DBMS

Score	98.94
Rank	#11	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	7.71
Rank	#46	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	1.38
Rank	#156	Overall
	#72	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

franz.com/agraph/support/documentation/current/agraph-introduction.html

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

docs.greenplum.org

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Franz Inc.

Altibase

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Pivotal Software Inc.

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2004

1999

2008

2005

2010

Current release

8.0, December 2023

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

5.0-rc1, July 2024

7.0.0, September 2023

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Java, C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

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.

bulk load of XML files possible

yes

since Version 4.2

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

ANSI SQL-92

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Java

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users can be defined per object

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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