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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Bangdb vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Stardog

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  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 ScioreConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphCloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Key-value storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
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Score1.06
Rank#187  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#7  Vector DBMS
Score1.85
Rank#138  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score0.08
Rank#347  Overall
#47  Document stores
#34  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score7.85
Rank#51  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score2.02
Rank#123  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Websiteallegrograph.comaws.amazon.com/­simpledbbangdb.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorewww.stardog.com
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmldocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdocs.bangdb.comfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoredocs.stardog.com
DeveloperFranz Inc.AmazonSachin Sinha, BangDBGoogleStardog-Union
Initial release20042007201220172010
Current release8.0, December 2023BangDB 2.0, October 20217.3.0, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freecommercialOpen Source infoBSD 3commercialcommercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageC, C++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinuxhostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesyes
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 possiblenonono infoImport/export of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languagenoSQL like support with command line toolnoYes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
RESTful HTTP APIProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common Lispnonoyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsuser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java
Triggersyesnoyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yes, with Cloud Functionsyes infovia event handlers
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 algorithmShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)Multi-source replicationMulti-source replication in HA-Cluster
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoUsing Cloud Dataflowno
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 ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in HA-Cluster
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes inforelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDyesACID
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)Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.Access rights for users and roles
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AllegroGraphAmazon SimpleDBBangdbGoogle Cloud FirestoreStardog
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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