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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. Apache Impala vs. OpenSearch

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Name

Description

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

Scalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualization

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.06
Rank	#187	Overall
	#30	Document stores
	#17	Graph DBMS
	#7	RDF stores
	#7	Vector DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#307	Overall
	#24	Graph DBMS
	#13	RDF stores

Score	13.77
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

allegrograph.com

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

impala.apache.org

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

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

docs.cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph/userdoc/home.htm

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Franz Inc.

Cambridge Semantics

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

2004

2018

2013

2021

Current release

8.0, December 2023

2.3, January 2021

4.1.0, June 2022

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

SPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

Apache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

C++
Java
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

user defined functions and aggregates

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

Automatic sharding

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Kerberos/HDFS data loading

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency in MPP-Cluster

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

not needed in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

The OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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