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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Oracle vs. Weaviate

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Name

Description

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

A scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBase

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

Widely used RDBMS

An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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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	2.06
Rank	#123	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	4.04
Rank	#77	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	1244.08
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Website

allegrograph.com

phoenix.apache.org

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

www.oracle.com/database

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

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

phoenix.apache.org

docs.oracle.com/en/database

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Franz Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Microsoft

Oracle

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2004

2014

2012

1980

2019

Current release

8.0, December 2023

5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019

23c, September 2023

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Unix
Windows

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references

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

all data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

JDBC

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

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

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

user defined functions

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

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

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Access Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancy

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

All companies that have data.
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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