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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Ingres vs. Kinetica vs. STSdb

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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

Well established RDBMS

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.13
Rank	#179	Overall
	#30	Document stores
	#17	Graph DBMS
	#7	RDF stores
	#9	Vector DBMS

Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	3.80
Rank	#82	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	0.66
Rank	#234	Overall
	#107	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

allegrograph.com

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

www.kinetica.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

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

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.actian.com/ingres

docs.kinetica.com

Developer

Franz Inc.

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Actian Corporation

Kinetica

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2004

2012

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2012

2011

Current release

8.0, December 2023

11.2, May 2022

7.1, August 2021

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

user defined functions

in Python

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Ingres Replicator

Source-replica replication

none

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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

GPU vRAM or System RAM

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 and roles on table level

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