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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Databricks vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseThe Databricks Lakehouse Platform combines elements of data lakes and data warehouses to provide a unified view onto structured and unstructured data. It is based on Apache Spark.Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score1.13
Rank#179  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#8  Vector DBMS
Score2.06
Rank#123  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score81.08
Rank#15  Overall
#2  Document stores
#10  Relational DBMS
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Websiteallegrograph.comphoenix.apache.orgwww.databricks.comazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmlphoenix.apache.orgdocs.databricks.comdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics
DeveloperFranz Inc.Apache Software FoundationDatabricksMicrosoft
Initial release2004201420132016
Current release8.0, December 20235.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesyes
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Implementation languageJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows
hostedhosted
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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 possiblenoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languageyeswith Databricks SQLyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
JDBCJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Python
R
Scala
C#
Java
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common Lispuser defined functionsuser defined functions and aggregatesTransact SQL
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith FederationShardingSharding, horizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoHadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyyes
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AllegroGraphApache PhoenixDatabricksMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Specific characteristicsKnowledge Graph Platform Leader FedShard - Designed for Entity-Event Knowledge Graph...
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Supported database models : In addition to the Document store and Relational DBMS...
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Competitive advantagesAllegroGraph is uniquely suited to support adhoc queries through SPARQL, Prolog and...
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