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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Amazon Neptune vs. Ehcache vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. LeanXcale

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon Neptune  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonLeanXcale  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSFast, reliable graph database built for the cloudA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsA horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Key-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial 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
Score2.20
Rank#119  Overall
#9  Graph DBMS
#5  RDF stores
Score4.89
Rank#67  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score2.89
Rank#103  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#291  Overall
#41  Key-value stores
#132  Relational DBMS
Websiteallegrograph.comaws.amazon.com/­neptunewww.ehcache.orgcloud.google.com/­spannerwww.leanxcale.com
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmlaws.amazon.com/­neptune/­developer-resourceswww.ehcache.org/­documentationcloud.google.com/­spanner/­docs
DeveloperFranz Inc.AmazonTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGGoogleLeanXcale
Initial release20042017200920172015
Current release8.0, December 20233.10.0, March 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedAll OS with a Java VMhosted
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
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 possiblenonono
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languagenonoyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011yes infothrough Apache Derby
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
OpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin
JCachegRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC infoAt present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
Java
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common Lispnonono
Triggersyesnoyes infoCache Event Listenersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith FederationnoneSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-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.yes infoby using Terracotta ServerMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflowno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in graphsnoyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integrityyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceACID infoStrict serializable isolationACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infowith encyption-at-restyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)noAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)
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AllegroGraphAmazon NeptuneEhcacheGoogle Cloud SpannerLeanXcale
Specific characteristicsKnowledge Graph Platform Leader FedShard - Designed for Entity-Event Knowledge Graph...
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Competitive advantagesAllegroGraph is uniquely suited to support adhoc queries through SPARQL, Prolog and...
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