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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Apache Druid vs. Cassandra vs. Firebase Realtime Database

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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

Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Wide column store

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

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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	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Website

allegrograph.com

druid.apache.org

cassandra.apache.org

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

Technical documentation

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

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

firebase.google.com/docs/database

Developer

Franz Inc.

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Initial release

2004

2012

2008

2012

Current release

8.0, December 2023

29.0.1, April 2024

4.1.3, July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

yes

schema-less columns are supported

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

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)

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

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

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

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

limited functionality with using 'rules'

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

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

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

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

yes

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.

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

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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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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