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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. FoundationDB vs. H2GIS vs. Oracle Rdb

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.
DescriptionHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.Spatial extension of H2
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Search engineDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Spatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.06
Rank#187  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#7  Vector DBMS
Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score1.03
Rank#190  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#89  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#184  Overall
#85  Relational DBMS
Websiteallegrograph.comaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchgithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.h2gis.orgwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.html
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmldocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchapple.github.io/­foundationdbwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homewww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.html
DeveloperFranz Inc.AmazonFoundationDBCNRSOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
Initial release20042012201320131984
Current release8.0, December 20236.2.28, November 20207.4.1.1, 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoLGPL 3.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
HP Open VMS
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasyesschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesno infosome layers support typingyesyes
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.no infobulk load of XML files possiblenono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexednoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languagenosupported in specific SQL layer onlyyesyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common Lispnoin SQL-layer onlyyes infobased on H2
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith Federationyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infomanaged transparently by AWSyesyes infobased on H2
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoin SQL-layer onlyyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDyes, on a single node
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationauthentication via encrypted signaturesnoyes infobased on H2
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AllegroGraphAmazon CloudSearchFoundationDBH2GISOracle Rdb
Specific characteristicsKnowledge Graph Platform Leader FedShard - Designed for Entity-Event Knowledge Graph...
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Competitive advantagesAllegroGraph is uniquely suited to support adhoc queries through SPARQL, Prolog and...
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