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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Firebase Realtime Database

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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

Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.05
Rank	#174	Overall
	#30	Document stores
	#15	Graph DBMS
	#7	RDF stores

Score	26.17
Rank	#31	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	18.80
Rank	#38	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Website

allegrograph.com

aws.amazon.com/redshift

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

Technical documentation

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

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

firebase.google.com/docs/database

Developer

Franz Inc.

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Initial release

2004

2012

Current release

7.2.0, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

yes

schema-free

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

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

JDBC
ODBC

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

user defined functions

in Python

limited functionality with using 'rules'

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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News

AI50 – Companies Empowering Intelligent Knowledge Management
18 July 2022

Semantics for Data Lakehouses
30 June 2022

Franz Inc. Named to Database Trends and Applications Top 100 Companies
10 June 2022

The Foundation of Data Fabrics and AI: Semantic Knowledge Graphs
20 May 2022

SCALE 2022 – Southern California Linux Expo
19 May 2022

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