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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Bangdb vs. Firebird vs. KairosDB vs. Snowflake

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
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Score1.06
Rank#187  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#7  Vector DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#347  Overall
#47  Document stores
#34  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score121.33
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Websiteallegrograph.combangdb.comwww.firebirdsql.orggithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbwww.snowflake.com
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmldocs.bangdb.comwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualskairosdb.github.iodocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperFranz Inc.Sachin Sinha, BangDBFirebird FoundationSnowflake Computing Inc.
Initial release200420122000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20132014
Current release8.0, December 2023BangDB 2.0, October 20215.0.0, January 20241.2.2, November 2018
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageC, C++C and C++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasschema-freeyesschema-freeyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesyesyes
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 possiblenonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languageSQL like support with command line toolyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common LispnoPSQLnouser defined functions
Triggersyesyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yesnono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resources
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith FederationSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmnoneSharding infobased on Cassandrayes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)Source-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes, run db with in-memory only modenono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationyes (enterprise version only)Users with fine-grained authorization conceptsimple password-based access controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication
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Competitive advantagesAllegroGraph is uniquely suited to support adhoc queries through SPARQL, Prolog and...
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