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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Brytlyt vs. Sequoiadb vs. VoltDB vs. YugabyteDB

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Name

Description

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

Scalable GPU-accelerated RDBMS for very fast analytic and streaming workloads, leveraging PostgreSQL

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

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

High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Wide column store

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

Score	0.29
Rank	#288	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	1.44
Rank	#158	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Score	2.91
Rank	#102	Overall
	#51	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

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

docs.brytlyt.io

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

docs.voltdb.com

docs.yugabyte.com
github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db

Developer

Franz Inc.

Brytlyt

Sequoiadb Ltd.

VoltDB Inc.

Yugabyte Inc.

Initial release

2004

2016

2013

2010

2017

Current release

8.0, December 2023

5.0, August 2023

11.3, April 2022

2.19, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Open Source

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

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++ and CUDA

C++

Java, C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X

for development

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

yes

schema-free

yes

depending on used data model

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

yes

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

yes, PostgreSQL compatible

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

proprietary protocol using JSON

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

user defined functions

in PL/pgSQL

JavaScript

Java

yes

sql, plpgsql, C

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

Sharding

Hash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability

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

Eventual Consistency

Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Distributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

yes

based on RocksDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

yes

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

AllegroGraph is uniquely suited to support adhoc queries through SPARQL, Prolog and...
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Typical application scenarios

Systems of record and engagement for cloud native applications that require resilience,...
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Market metrics

2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB Community...
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Licensing and pricing models

Apache 2.0 license for the database
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