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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Apache Drill vs. Apache Phoenix vs. BigchainDB vs. gStore

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisongStore  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsA native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Document store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score1.13
Rank#179  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#7  Vector DBMS
Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score2.06
Rank#123  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.14
Rank#342  Overall
#34  Graph DBMS
#16  RDF stores
Websiteallegrograph.comdrill.apache.orgphoenix.apache.orgwww.bigchaindb.comen.gstore.cn
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmldrill.apache.org/­docsphoenix.apache.orgbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latesten.gstore.cn/­#/­enDocs
DeveloperFranz Inc.Apache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation
Initial release20042012201420162016
Current release8.0, December 20231.20.3, January 20235.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20191.2, November 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaPythonC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasschema-freeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-freeschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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 possiblenononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languageSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantyesnono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common Lispuser defined functionsuser defined functionsyes
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith FederationShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesHadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noDepending on the underlying data sourceyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationDepending on the underlying data sourceAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyyesUsers, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported
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AllegroGraphApache DrillApache PhoenixBigchainDBgStore
Specific characteristicsKnowledge Graph Platform Leader FedShard - Designed for Entity-Event Knowledge Graph...
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Competitive advantagesAllegroGraph is uniquely suited to support adhoc queries through SPARQL, Prolog and...
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