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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. BigchainDB vs. ClickHouse vs. HyperSQL vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

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

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

A high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

An in-memory SQL relational database that delivers microsecond response and high throughput for OLTP applications. TimesTen can be deployed as a standalone database or as a cache to a backend Oracle database.

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.84
Rank	#204	Overall
	#35	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS
	#7	RDF stores
	#10	Vector DBMS

Score	0.76
Rank	#216	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	15.88
Rank	#37	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	3.14
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	1.26
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

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

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

clickhouse.com/docs

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/timesten/index.html

Developer

Franz Inc.

Clickhouse Inc.

Oracle

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2004

2016

2001

1998

Current release

8.0, December 2023

v24.6.2.17-stable, July 2024

2.7.2, June 2023

Release 22.1

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

IBM AIX Power PC 64-bit
Linux arm64
Linux x86-64
Solaris SPARC 64
Solaris SPARC/x86
Solaris x86-64

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Pro*C/C++ programming interfaces
SQL and PL/SQL via JDBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

3rd party library
C++
Elixir

3rd party library
Go

3rd party library
Java

3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party library
Kotlin

3rd party library
Nim

3rd party library
Perl

3rd party library
PHP

3rd party library
Python

3rd party library
R

3rd party library
Ruby

3rd party library
Rust
Scala

3rd party library

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

C
C++
Java
Node.js
PL/SQL
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

yes

Java, SQL

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

Sharding

key based and custom

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

Asynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

yes

Access rights for users and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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