DBMS > AllegroGraph vs. Amazon Redshift vs. GeoMesa vs. RethinkDB vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Amazon Redshift vs. GeoMesa vs. RethinkDB vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

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

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

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	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.74
Rank	#105	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Website

allegrograph.com

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.geomesa.org

rethinkdb.com

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

rethinkdb.com/docs

Developer

Franz Inc.

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

CCRi and others

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2004

2012

2014

2009

Current release

8.0, December 2023

4.0.5, February 2024

2.4.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

user defined functions

in Python

Triggers

yes

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

Sharding

depending on storage layer

Sharding

range based

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

depending on storage layer

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

depending on storage layer

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

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

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

depending on storage layer

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

depending on the DBMS used for storage

yes

users and table-level permissions

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Competitive advantages

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