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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Blueflood vs. Graphite vs. Snowflake vs. Spark SQL

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score1.13
Rank#179  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#7  Vector DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score130.36
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websiteallegrograph.comblueflood.iogithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.snowflake.comspark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmlgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikigraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmlspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperFranz Inc.RackspaceChris DavisSnowflake Computing Inc.Apache Software Foundation
Initial release20042013200620142014
Current release8.0, December 20233.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaPythonScala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Linux
Unix
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemaspredefined schemeyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data onlyyesyes
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 possiblenonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languagenonoyesSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
HTTP RESTHTTP API
Sockets
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common Lispnonouser defined functionsno
Triggersyesnonono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith FederationSharding infobased on Cassandranoneyesyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranoneyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
noneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infolockingyesyes
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.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationnonoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationno
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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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