DBMS > AllegroGraph vs. Apache Impala vs. OpenTSDB vs. Snowflake vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Apache Impala vs. OpenTSDB vs. Snowflake vs. Sphinx

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Name

Description

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

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

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

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store

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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	12.45
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#142	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	5.95
Rank	#55	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

Technical documentation

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

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Franz Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2004

2013

2011

2014

2001

Current release

8.0, December 2023

4.1.0, June 2022

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

LGPL

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

yes

schema-free

yes

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

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Telnet API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

Sharding

based on HBase

yes

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

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

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