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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Apache Phoenix vs. SAP HANA vs. SiriDB vs. VelocityDB

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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

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Open Source Time Series DBMS

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.06
Rank	#187	Overall
	#30	Document stores
	#17	Graph DBMS
	#7	RDF stores
	#7	Vector DBMS

Score	1.97
Rank	#126	Overall
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

allegrograph.com

phoenix.apache.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

siridb.com

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

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

phoenix.apache.org

help.sap.com/hana

docs.siridb.com

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Franz Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

SAP

Cesbit

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2004

2014

2010

2017

2011

Current release

8.0, December 2023

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

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Unix
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

.Net

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

user defined functions

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

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

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

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

yes

simple rights management via user accounts

Based on Windows Authentication

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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