DBMS > AllegroGraph vs. Amazon DocumentDB vs. Amazon Redshift vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. KairosDB

System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Amazon DocumentDB vs. Amazon Redshift vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. KairosDB

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Name

Description

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

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

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Scalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualization

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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

Score	1.91
Rank	#131	Overall
	#24	Document stores

Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#303	Overall
	#25	Graph DBMS
	#14	RDF stores

Score	0.67
Rank	#233	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Website

allegrograph.com

aws.amazon.com/documentdb

aws.amazon.com/redshift

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

Technical documentation

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

aws.amazon.com/documentdb/resources

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

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

kairosdb.github.io

Developer

Franz Inc.

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Cambridge Semantics

Initial release

2004

2019

2012

2018

2013

Current release

8.0, December 2023

2.3, January 2021

1.2.2, November 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

schema-free

yes

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

schema-free

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

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

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

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)

JDBC
ODBC

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

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C++
Java
Python

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions and aggregates

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

none

Sharding

Automatic sharding

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

yes

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Kerberos/HDFS data loading

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in MPP-Cluster

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

not needed in graphs

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

simple password-based access control

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