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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Amazon DocumentDB vs. Amazon Redshift vs. PostgreSQL vs. SWC-DB

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon Redshift  Xexclude from comparisonPostgreSQL  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceLarge scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence toolsWidely used open source RDBMS infoDeveloped as objectoriented DBMS (Postgres), gradually enhanced with 'standards' like SQLA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infowith object oriented extensions, e.g.: user defined types/functions and inheritance. Handling of key/value pairs with hstore module.Wide column store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith Apache Age
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS infowith pgvector extension
Time Series 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
Score1.91
Rank#132  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score17.94
Rank#34  Overall
#21  Relational DBMS
Score645.54
Rank#4  Overall
#4  Relational DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#376  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websiteallegrograph.comaws.amazon.com/­documentdbaws.amazon.com/­redshiftwww.postgresql.orggithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmlaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourcesdocs.aws.amazon.com/­redshiftwww.postgresql.org/­docs
DeveloperFranz Inc.Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)PostgreSQL Global Development Group infowww.postgresql.org/­developerAlex Kashirin
Initial release2004201920121989 info1989: Postgres, 1996: PostgreSQL2020
Current release8.0, December 202316.3, May 20240.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnono
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Implementation languageCCC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedhostedFreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OpenBSD
OS X
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasschema-freeyesyesschema-free
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.no infobulk load of XML files possiblenonoyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.no
Secondary indexesyesyesrestrictedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languagenoyes infodoes not fully support an SQL-standardyes infostandard with numerous extensionsSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common Lispnouser defined functions infoin Pythonuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.no
Triggersyesnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith FederationnoneShardingpartitioning by range, list and (since PostgreSQL 11) by hashSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasyesSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensions
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)nonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possibleyes infoinformational only, not enforced by the systemyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic single-document operationsACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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