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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. MySQL vs. ScyllaDB

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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

Widely used open source RDBMS

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Key-value store

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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	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	4.75
Rank	#68	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Website

allegrograph.com

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

www.mysql.com

www.scylladb.com

Technical documentation

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

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

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.scylladb.com

Developer

Franz Inc.

Cambridge Semantics

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

ScyllaDB

Initial release

2004

2018

1995

2015

Current release

8.0, December 2023

2.3, January 2021

8.4.0, April 2024

ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

schema-free

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

cluster global secondary indices

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

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

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

compatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

C++
Java
Python

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

user defined functions and aggregates

yes

proprietary syntax

yes, Lua

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

Automatic sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Kerberos/HDFS data loading

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency in MPP-Cluster

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

not needed in graphs

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

in-memory tables

User concepts

Access control

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

Access rights for users and roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Access rights for users can be defined per object

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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