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DBMS > AllegroGraph vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Dragonfly vs. FileMaker vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Dragonfly vs. FileMaker vs. RDF4J

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  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 ScioreA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Key-value storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSRDF store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.13
Rank#179  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#7  Vector DBMS
Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.49
Rank#261  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websiteallegrograph.comaws.amazon.com/­simpledbgithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
www.claris.com/­filemakerrdf4j.org
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmldocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.dragonflydb.io/­docswww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperFranz Inc.AmazonDragonflyDB team and community contributorsClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release20042007202319832004
Current release8.0, December 20231.0, March 202319.4.1, November 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freecommercialOpen Source infoBSL 1.1commercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinuxiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasschema-freescheme-freeyesyes infoRDF Schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnostrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesyes
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 possiblenoyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML format
Secondary indexesyesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallynoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languagenonoyes infovia pluginsno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
RESTful HTTP APIProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
PHPJava
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common LispnoLuayesyes
Triggersyesnopublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith Federationnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14none
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
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsnoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, strict serializability by the serveryesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as well
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
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)Password-based authenticationsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesno
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