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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Impala vs. Memgraph

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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

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store

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Trend Chart

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

Score	15.25
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	10.63
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	2.91
Rank	#94	Overall
	#7	Graph DBMS

Website

allegrograph.com

aws.amazon.com/redshift

impala.apache.org

memgraph.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

memgraph.com/docs

Social network pages

Developer

Franz Inc.

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Memgraph Ltd

Initial release

2004

2012

2013

2017

Current release

8.0, December 2023

4.1.0, June 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

yes

schema-free and schema-optional

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

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

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

JDBC
ODBC

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

user defined functions

in Python

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication using RAFT

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

relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

with snapshot isolation

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

Users, roles and permissions

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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