DBMS > AllegroGraph vs. Amazon Neptune vs. CouchDB vs. Faircom EDGE vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Amazon Neptune vs. CouchDB vs. Faircom EDGE vs. SAP HANA

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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 native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.

FairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environments

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Document store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial 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	7.46
Rank	#51	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	0.02
Rank	#370	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores
	#157	Relational DBMS

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

allegrograph.com

aws.amazon.com/neptune

couchdb.apache.org

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

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

aws.amazon.com/neptune/developer-resources

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.html

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Franz Inc.

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developer

FairCom Corporation

SAP

Initial release

2004

2017

2005

1979

2010

Current release

8.0, December 2023

3.3.3, December 2023

V3, October 2020

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Erlang

ANSI C, C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

ANSI SQL queries

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

OpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

View functions in JavaScript

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

none

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

yes

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.

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

when using SQL

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a single document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

strategy: optimistic locking

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with encyption-at-rest

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 can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Fine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.

yes

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