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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. MonetDB vs. Oracle NoSQL

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Name

Description

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

Hosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Document store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
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	74.45
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	1.72
Rank	#141	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	3.05
Rank	#97	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#16	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Website

allegrograph.com

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.monetdb.org

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

Technical documentation

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

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

Developer

Franz Inc.

Amazon

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

MonetDB BV

Oracle

Initial release

2004

2012

2010

2004

2011

Current release

8.0, December 2023

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

24.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

schema-free

yes

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes, in SQL, C, R

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

Sharding

Sharding via remote tables

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and region

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

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

off heap cache

User concepts

Access control

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

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Access rights for users can be defined per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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