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DBMS > AllegroGraph vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Impala vs. Databricks vs. Elasticsearch

System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Impala vs. Databricks vs. Elasticsearch

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSHosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreAnalytic DBMS for HadoopThe Databricks Lakehouse Platform combines elements of data lakes and data warehouses to provide a unified view onto structured and unstructured data. It is based on Apache Spark.A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metric
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Search engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.84
Rank#204  Overall
#35  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#10  Vector DBMS
Score1.89
Rank#128  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score10.63
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score84.24
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Document stores
#9  Relational DBMS
Score128.79
Rank#8  Overall
#1  Search engines
Websiteallegrograph.comaws.amazon.com/­simpledbimpala.apache.orgwww.databricks.comwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearch
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmldocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmldocs.databricks.comwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.html
DeveloperFranz Inc.AmazonApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaDatabricksElastic
Initial release20042007201320132010
Current release8.0, December 20234.1.0, June 20228.6, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoElastic License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageC++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinuxhostedAll OS with a Java VM
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasschema-freeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.no infobulk load of XML files possiblenoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languagenoSQL-like DML and DDL statementswith Databricks SQLSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBCPython
R
Scala
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common Lispnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceuser defined functions and aggregatesyes
Triggersyesnonoyes infoby using the 'percolation' feature
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith Federationnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesselectable replication factoryesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoquery execution via MapReduceES-Hadoop Connector
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoMemcached and Redis integration
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and Kerberos
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