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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Apache Drill vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

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Name

Description

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

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.35
Rank	#144	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#12	Graph DBMS
	#7	RDF stores

Score	2.55
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	33.52
Rank	#25	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Website

allegrograph.com

drill.apache.org

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

Technical documentation

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

drill.apache.org/docs

docs.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

Developer

Franz Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Microsoft

Initial release

2004

2012

2014

Current release

7.0.0, April 2020

1.18.0, September 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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 properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

C++

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

user defined functions

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

none

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

Depending on the underlying data source

User concepts

Access control

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

Depending on the underlying data source

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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News

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15 March 2021

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9 March 2021

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1 February 2021

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