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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Amazon Neptune vs. ClickHouse vs. OrientDB vs. Quasardb

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Name

Description

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

Fast, reliable graph database built for the cloud

A high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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

Score	0.84
Rank	#204	Overall
	#35	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS
	#7	RDF stores
	#10	Vector DBMS

Score	2.20
Rank	#113	Overall
	#9	Graph DBMS
	#5	RDF stores

Score	15.88
Rank	#37	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	3.02
Rank	#88	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#6	Graph DBMS
	#12	Key-value stores

Score	0.13
Rank	#332	Overall
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Website

allegrograph.com

aws.amazon.com/neptune

clickhouse.com

orientdb.org

quasar.ai

Technical documentation

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

aws.amazon.com/neptune/developer-resources

clickhouse.com/docs

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

doc.quasar.ai/master

Developer

Franz Inc.

Amazon

Clickhouse Inc.

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

quasardb

Initial release

2004

2017

2016

2010

2009

Current release

8.0, December 2023

v24.6.2.17-stable, July 2024

3.2.29, March 2024

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

SQL-like query language, no joins

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

OpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

3rd party library
C++
Elixir

3rd party library
Go

3rd party library
Java

3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party library
Kotlin

3rd party library
Nim

3rd party library
Perl

3rd party library
PHP

3rd party library
Python

3rd party library
R

3rd party library
Ruby

3rd party library
Rust
Scala

3rd party library

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

yes

Java, Javascript

Triggers

yes

Hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

none

key based and custom

Sharding

consistent hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-availability zones high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicas within a single region. Global database clusters consists of a primary write DB cluster in one region, and up to five secondary read DB clusters in different regions. Each secondary region can have up to 16 reader instances.

Asynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

could be achieved with distributed queries

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

relationship in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with encyption-at-rest

yes

by using LevelDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Transient mode

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 and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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