DBMS > AllegroGraph vs. ClickHouse vs. KairosDB vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. ClickHouse vs. KairosDB vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Snowflake

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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.

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

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	0.62
Rank	#239	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.52
Rank	#254	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

allegrograph.com

clickhouse.com

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

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

clickhouse.com/docs

kairosdb.github.io

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Franz Inc.

Clickhouse Inc.

Percona

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2004

2016

2013

2015

2014

Current release

8.0, December 2023

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

1.2.2, November 2018

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

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

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

proprietary protocol using JSON

CLI Client
JDBC
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

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

yes

JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

key based and custom

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

yes

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

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication

yes

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

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

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

via In-Memory Engine

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.

simple password-based access control

Access rights for users and roles

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

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