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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Bangdb vs. Oracle vs. Teradata Aster vs. TigerGraph

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Name

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

Widely used RDBMS

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.08
Rank	#347	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	1.83
Rank	#139	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Website

allegrograph.com

bangdb.com

www.oracle.com/database

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.bangdb.com

docs.oracle.com/en/database

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

Franz Inc.

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Oracle

Teradata

Initial release

2004

2012

1980

2005

2017

Current release

8.0, December 2023

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

BSD 3

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

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

Linux

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

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

yes

in Aster File Store

Secondary indexes

yes

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

SQL like support with command line tool

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

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

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

R packages

yes

Triggers

yes

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

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

yes (enterprise version only)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

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