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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Bangdb vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. SwayDB

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Data Explorer  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  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 graphFully managed big data interactive analytics platformAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS infocolumn orientedKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument store infoIf a column is of type dynamic docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­scalar-data-types/­dynamic then it's possible to add arbitrary JSON documents in this cell
Event Store infothis is the general usage pattern at Microsoft. Billing, Logs, Telemetry events are stored in ADX and the state of an individual entity is defined by the arg_max(timestamps)
Spatial DBMS
Search engine infosupport for complex search expressions docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­parseoperator FTS, Geospatial docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­geo-point-to-geohash-function distributed search -> ADX acts as a distributed search engine
Time Series DBMS infosee docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­data-explorer/­time-series-analysis
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.03
Rank#199  Overall
#34  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#7  Vector DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#45  Document stores
#29  Graph DBMS
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score5.82
Rank#65  Overall
#37  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#385  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websiteallegrograph.combangdb.comazure.microsoft.com/­services/­data-explorerswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmldocs.bangdb.comdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­data-explorer
DeveloperFranz Inc.Sachin Sinha, BangDBMicrosoftSimer Plaha
Initial release2004201220192018
Current release8.0, December 2023BangDB 2.0, October 2021cloud service with continuous releases
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoBSD 3commercialOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageC, C++Scala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linuxhosted
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasschema-freeFixed schema with schema-less datatypes (dynamic)schema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyes infobool, datetime, dynamic, guid, int, long, real, string, timespan, double: docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­scalar-data-typesno
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 indexesyesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialall fields are automatically indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languageSQL like support with command line toolKusto Query Language (KQL), SQL subsetno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Microsoft SQL Server communication protocol (MS-TDS)
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PowerShell
Python
R
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common LispnoYes, possible languages: KQL, Python, Rno
Triggersyesyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yes infosee docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­management/­updatepolicyno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith FederationSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)yes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoSpark connector (open source): github.com/­Azure/­azure-kusto-sparkno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyes
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 modenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationyes (enterprise version only)Azure Active Directory Authenticationno
More information provided by the system vendor
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Specific characteristicsKnowledge Graph Platform Leader FedShard - Designed for Entity-Event Knowledge Graph...
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Competitive advantagesAllegroGraph is uniquely suited to support adhoc queries through SPARQL, Prolog and...
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