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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. ClickHouse vs. FatDB vs. MonetDB vs. Oracle Rdb

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

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.

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.84
Rank	#204	Overall
	#35	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS
	#7	RDF stores
	#10	Vector DBMS

Score	15.88
Rank	#37	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#135	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	1.04
Rank	#184	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Website

allegrograph.com

clickhouse.com

www.monetdb.org

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

Technical documentation

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

clickhouse.com/docs

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

Developer

Franz Inc.

Clickhouse Inc.

FatCloud

MonetDB BV

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Initial release

2004

2016

2012

2004

1984

Current release

8.0, December 2023

v24.6.2.17-stable, July 2024

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

HP Open VMS

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

yes

schema-free

yes

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

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

Via inetgration in SQL Server

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

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

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

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++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

yes

via applications

yes, in SQL, C, R

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

key based and custom

Sharding

Sharding via remote tables

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.

selectable replication factor

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes, on a single node

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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.

Can implement custom security layer via applications

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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