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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. EXASOL vs. OpenEdge vs. RDF4J

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Name

Description

High performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMS

Hosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud.

There is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward Sciore

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

Application development environment with integrated database management system

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

RDF store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.16
Rank	#179	Overall
	#30	Document stores
	#17	Graph DBMS
	#7	RDF stores
	#7	Vector DBMS

Score	1.88
Rank	#139	Overall
	#24	Key-value stores

Score	2.25
Rank	#120	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

Score	3.75
Rank	#88	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	0.71
Rank	#231	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

allegrograph.com

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

www.exasol.com

www.progress.com/openedge

rdf4j.org

Technical documentation

franz.com/agraph/support/documentation/current/agraph-introduction.html

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

www.exasol.com/resources

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Franz Inc.

Amazon

Exasol

Progress Software Corporation

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Initial release

2004

2007

2000

1984

2004

Current release

8.0, December 2023

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

bulk load of XML files possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

close to SQL 92

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

RESTful HTTP API

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java
Lua
Python
R

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Users and groups

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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