DBMS > AllegroGraph vs. Cachelot.io vs. EDB Postgres vs. Google BigQuery vs. VoltDB

System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Cachelot.io vs. EDB Postgres vs. Google BigQuery vs. VoltDB

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Name

Description

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

In-memory caching system

The EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

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

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Score	1.90
Rank	#135	Overall
	#63	Relational DBMS

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	1.44
Rank	#158	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

allegrograph.com

cachelot.io

www.enterprisedb.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

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

www.enterprisedb.com/docs

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Franz Inc.

EnterpriseDB

Google

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2004

2015

2005

2010

Current release

8.0, December 2023

14, December 2021

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

commercial

BSD for PostgreSQL-components

commercial

Open Source

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

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java, C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X

for development

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

yes

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

standard with numerous extensions

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

Memcached protocol

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

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

none

horizontal partitioning

by hash, list or range

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

Multi-source replication

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

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

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

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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