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DBMS > AllegroGraph vs. BigchainDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SurrealDB vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. BigchainDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SurrealDB vs. TimesTen

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMSIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.13
Rank#179  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#9  Vector DBMS
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Score1.36
Rank#161  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Websiteallegrograph.comwww.bigchaindb.comazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticssurrealdb.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmlbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticssurrealdb.com/­docsdocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
DeveloperFranz Inc.MicrosoftSurrealDB LtdOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release20042016201620221998
Current release8.0, December 2023v1.5.0, May 202411 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languagePythonC++Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxhostedLinux
macOS
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
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 possiblenonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languagenoyesSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
PHP
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common LispTransact SQLPL/SQL
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith FederationShardingSharding, horizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factoryesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationyesyesyes, based on authentication and database rulesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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AllegroGraphBigchainDBMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data WarehouseSurrealDBTimesTen
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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