DBMS > AllegroGraph vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. searchxml vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. searchxml vs. TigerGraph

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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

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.06
Rank	#187	Overall
	#30	Document stores
	#17	Graph DBMS
	#7	RDF stores
	#7	Vector DBMS

Score	74.07
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Score	1.83
Rank	#139	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Website

allegrograph.com

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.postgres-xl.org

www.searchxml.net/category/products

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

Franz Inc.

Amazon

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2004

2012

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2015

2017

Current release

8.0, December 2023

10 R1, October 2018

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Mozilla public license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
macOS

Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

user defined functions

yes

on the application server

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

ACID

MVCC

multiple readers, single writer

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

Role-based access control

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