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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. BigObject vs. Databricks vs. dBASE vs. RDFox

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesThe Databricks Lakehouse Platform combines elements of data lakes and data warehouses to provide a unified view onto structured and unstructured data. It is based on Apache Spark.dBase was one of the first databases with a development environment on PC's. Its latest version dBase V is still sold as dBase classic, which needs a DOS Emulation. The up-to-date product is dBase plus.High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score1.13
Rank#179  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#7  Vector DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score81.08
Rank#15  Overall
#2  Document stores
#10  Relational DBMS
Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Websiteallegrograph.combigobject.iowww.databricks.comwww.dbase.comwww.oxfordsemantic.tech
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmldocs.bigobject.iodocs.databricks.comwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasedocs.oxfordsemantic.tech
DeveloperFranz Inc.BigObject, Inc.DatabricksAsthon TateOxford Semantic Technologies
Initial release20042015201319792017
Current release8.0, December 2023dBASE 2019, 20196.0, Septermber 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
hostedDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyes infoRDF schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 possiblenoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statementswith Databricks SQLnono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
Python
R
Scala
dBase proprietary IDEC
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common LispLuauser defined functions and aggregatesno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith Federationnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneyesnonereplication via a shared file system
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDno infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationnoAccess rights for users and rolesRoles, resources, and access types
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AllegroGraphBigObjectDatabricksdBASERDFox
Specific characteristicsKnowledge Graph Platform Leader FedShard - Designed for Entity-Event Knowledge Graph...
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Supported database models : In addition to the Document store and Relational DBMS...
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Competitive advantagesAllegroGraph is uniquely suited to support adhoc queries through SPARQL, Prolog and...
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