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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Apache Druid vs. Graphite vs. OrientDB vs. Snowflake

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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

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.13
Rank	#179	Overall
	#30	Document stores
	#17	Graph DBMS
	#7	RDF stores
	#7	Vector DBMS

Score	3.25
Rank	#90	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.83
Rank	#67	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.25
Rank	#89	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#6	Graph DBMS
	#13	Key-value stores

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

allegrograph.com

druid.apache.org

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

orientdb.org

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

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

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

graphite.readthedocs.io

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Franz Inc.

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Chris Davis

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2004

2012

2006

2010

2014

Current release

8.0, December 2023

29.0.1, April 2024

3.2.29, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Python

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix

Linux
Unix

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

hosted

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

yes

schema-less columns are supported

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

SQL for querying

SQL-like query language, no joins

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
Sockets

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

Java, Javascript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Hooks

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

none

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

none

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

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 and roles; record level security configurable

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

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