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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. ClickHouse vs. Faircom EDGE vs. HBase

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Name

Description

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

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.

FairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environments

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Time Series 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	16.34
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	0.02
Rank	#368	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores
	#156	Relational DBMS

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Website

allegrograph.com

clickhouse.com

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

hbase.apache.org

Technical documentation

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

clickhouse.com/docs

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.html

hbase.apache.org/book.html

Developer

Franz Inc.

Clickhouse Inc.

FairCom Corporation

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Initial release

2004

2016

1979

2008

Current release

8.0, December 2023

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

V3, October 2020

2.3.4, January 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

Apache version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

ANSI C, C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

schema-free, schema definition possible

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

ANSI SQL queries

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

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

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes

Coprocessors in Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

key based and custom

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

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 user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

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