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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. BigObject vs. Riak TS vs. VoltDB vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

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

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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

Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#319	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.44
Rank	#158	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

allegrograph.com

bigobject.io

www.voltdb.com

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.bigobject.io

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Franz Inc.

BigObject, Inc.

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

VoltDB Inc.

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2004

2015

2010

2009

Current release

8.0, December 2023

3.0.0, September 2022

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Erlang

Java, C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Linux
OS X

for development

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes, limited

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

Lua

Erlang

Java

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

links between datasets can be stored

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

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

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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