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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Bangdb vs. Blazegraph vs. EXASOL

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.
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 ScioreConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphHigh-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Key-value storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
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Score1.13
Rank#179  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#9  Vector DBMS
Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.16
Rank#338  Overall
#47  Document stores
#32  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score0.81
Rank#213  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score1.76
Rank#139  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Websiteallegrograph.comaws.amazon.com/­simpledbbangdb.comblazegraph.comwww.exasol.com
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmldocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdocs.bangdb.comwiki.blazegraph.comwww.exasol.com/­resources
DeveloperFranz Inc.AmazonSachin Sinha, BangDBBlazegraphExasol
Initial release20042007201220062000
Current release8.0, December 2023BangDB 2.0, October 20212.1.5, March 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freecommercialOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoextended commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC, C++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyes infoRDF literal typesyes
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 possiblenono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languagenoSQL like support with command line toolSPARQL is used as query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
RESTful HTTP APIProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Lua
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common Lispnonoyesuser defined functions
Triggersyesnoyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)noyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith Federationnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes infoHadoop integration
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
Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes infoRelationships in Graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes, run db with in-memory only modeyes
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)yes (enterprise version only)Security and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard
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AllegroGraphAmazon SimpleDBBangdbBlazegraphEXASOL
Specific characteristicsKnowledge Graph Platform Leader FedShard - Designed for Entity-Event Knowledge Graph...
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Competitive advantagesAllegroGraph is uniquely suited to support adhoc queries through SPARQL, Prolog and...
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