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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Apache Impala vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SQL.JS vs. TerarkDB

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSAnalytic DBMS for HadoopMicrosofts flagship relational DBMSPort of SQLite to JavaScriptA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
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Score1.13
Rank#179  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#8  Vector DBMS
Score12.45
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score821.56
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Websiteallegrograph.comimpala.apache.orgwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-serversql.js.orggithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmlimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmllearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-serversql.js.org/­documentation/­index.htmlbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperFranz Inc.Apache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaMicrosoftAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release20042013198920122016
Current release8.0, December 20234.1.0, June 2022SQL Server 2022, November 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Sourcecommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++JavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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 possiblenoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
JavaScript APIC++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
JavaScriptC++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common Lispyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Javanono
Triggersyesnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith FederationShardingtables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federationnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factoryes, but depending on the SQL-Server Editionnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and Kerberosfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono
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AllegroGraphApache ImpalaMicrosoft SQL ServerSQL.JSTerarkDB
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Competitive advantagesAllegroGraph is uniquely suited to support adhoc queries through SPARQL, Prolog and...
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