DBMS > AllegroGraph vs. Apache Druid vs. Cassandra vs. Faircom EDGE vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Apache Druid vs. Cassandra vs. Faircom EDGE vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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Name

Description

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

Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality data

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

FairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environments

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Wide column store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

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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	3.34
Rank	#88	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	101.89
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	0.02
Rank	#368	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores
	#156	Relational DBMS

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Website

allegrograph.com

druid.apache.org

cassandra.apache.org

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

Technical documentation

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

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.html

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

Franz Inc.

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

FairCom Corporation

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2004

2012

2008

1979

1992

Current release

8.0, December 2023

29.0.1, April 2024

4.1.3, July 2023

V3, October 2020

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

ANSI C, C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

yes

schema-less columns are supported

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

SQL for querying

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

yes

ANSI SQL queries

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

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

RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and system

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Fine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

AllegroGraph is uniquely suited to support adhoc queries through SPARQL, Prolog and...
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Typical application scenarios

Internet of Things (IOT), fraud detection applications, recommendation engines, product...
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Key customers

Apple, Netflix, Uber, ING,, Intuit,Fidelity, NY Times, Outbrain, BazaarVoice, Best...
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Market metrics

Cassandra is used by 40% of the Fortune 100.
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Licensing and pricing models

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