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DBMS > AllegroGraph vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. BigchainDB vs. Lovefield vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. BigchainDB vs. Lovefield vs. TimesTen

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  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 ScioreBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptAn in-memory SQL relational database that delivers microsecond response and high throughput for OLTP applications. TimesTen can be deployed as a standalone database or as a cache to a backend Oracle database.
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Key-value storeDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial 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
Score0.76
Rank#216  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.22
Rank#306  Overall
#138  Relational DBMS
Score1.26
Rank#164  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Websiteallegrograph.comaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.bigchaindb.comgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmldocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mddocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­timesten/­index.html
DeveloperFranz Inc.AmazonGoogleOracle infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release20042007201620141998
Current release8.0, December 20232.1.12, February 2017Release 22.1
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languagePythonJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariIBM AIX Power PC 64-bit
Linux arm64
Linux x86-64
Solaris SPARC 64
Solaris SPARC/x86
Solaris x86-64
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonoyesyes
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
Secondary indexesyesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languagenonoSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
RESTful HTTP APICLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Pro*C/C++ programming interfaces
SQL and PL/SQL via JDBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
JavaScriptC
C++
Java
Node.js
PL/SQL
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common LispnonoPL/SQL
TriggersyesnoUsing read-only observersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith Federationnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesselectable replication factornoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
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
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infousing MemoryDByes
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)yesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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