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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Graphite vs. HyperSQL vs. IBM Cloudant

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  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 ScioreData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Key-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
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
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#93  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Websiteallegrograph.comaws.amazon.com/­simpledbgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webhsqldb.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudant
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmldocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbgraphite.readthedocs.iohsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmlcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
DeveloperFranz Inc.AmazonChris DavisIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014
Initial release20042007200620012010
Current release8.0, December 20232.7.2, June 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infobased on BSD licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonoyes
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Implementation languagePythonJavaErlang
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
Unix
All OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modeshosted
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoNumeric data onlyyesno
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 automaticallynoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languagenonoyesno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
Sockets
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common LispnonoJava, SQLView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript
Triggersyesnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith Federationnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesnonenoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
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
noneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnoACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infolockingyesyes infoOptimistic locking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
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)nofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per database
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