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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Amazon DocumentDB vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

A hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

Fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database service

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Search engine

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.13
Rank	#179	Overall
	#30	Document stores
	#17	Graph DBMS
	#7	RDF stores
	#7	Vector DBMS

Score	1.81
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	1.91
Rank	#131	Overall
	#24	Document stores

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

allegrograph.com

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

aws.amazon.com/documentdb

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

aws.amazon.com/documentdb/resources

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Franz Inc.

Amazon

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2004

2012

2019

2014

Current release

8.0, December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

HTTP API

proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

managed transparently by AWS

Multi-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicas

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

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.

User concepts

Access control

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

authentication via encrypted signatures

Access rights for users and roles

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

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