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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Amazon Redshift vs. BigObject vs. Greenplum

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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 real-time computations and queries

Analytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database

A logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.16
Rank	#179	Overall
	#30	Document stores
	#17	Graph DBMS
	#7	RDF stores
	#7	Vector DBMS

Score	19.03
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#342	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Score	9.23
Rank	#47	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Website

allegrograph.com

aws.amazon.com/redshift

bigobject.io

greenplum.org

Technical documentation

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

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.bigobject.io

docs.greenplum.org

Developer

Franz Inc.

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

BigObject, Inc.

Pivotal Software Inc.

Initial release

2004

2012

2015

2005

Current release

8.0, December 2023

7.0.0, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Linux

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

yes

since Version 4.2

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

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

user defined functions

in Python

Lua

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

none

Source-replica replication

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

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

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

User concepts

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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