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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Impala vs. Ingres vs. Tibero

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Name

Description

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

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

Well established RDBMS

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store

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

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	13.77
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	4.11
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	1.78
Rank	#140	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Website

allegrograph.com

aws.amazon.com/redshift

impala.apache.org

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

Technical documentation

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

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

docs.actian.com/ingres

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

Developer

Franz Inc.

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Actian Corporation

TmaxSoft

Initial release

2004

2012

2013

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2003

Current release

8.0, December 2023

4.1.0, June 2022

11.2, May 2022

6, April 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C and Assembler

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

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

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

user defined functions

in Python

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

selectable replication factor

Ingres Replicator

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

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

planned for next version

User concepts

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

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