DBMS > AllegroGraph vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

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

A RDF storage and query DBMS, shipped as an optional-use component of the Apache Jena framework

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

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

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.16
Rank	#179	Overall
	#30	Document stores
	#17	Graph DBMS
	#7	RDF stores
	#7	Vector DBMS

Score	3.85
Rank	#86	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	4.00
Rank	#84	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	4.57
Rank	#78	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	88.71
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

allegrograph.com

jena.apache.org/documentation/tdb/index.html

rocksdb.org

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

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

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

jena.apache.org/documentation/tdb/index.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Franz Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Facebook, Inc.

SAP

formerly Sybase

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2004

2000

2013

1992

2003

Current release

8.0, December 2023

4.9.0, July 2023

8.11.4, April 2024

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

yes

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

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

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

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

yes

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

yes

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

Multi-source replication

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

yes

ACID

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Access control via Jena Security

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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Competitive advantages

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