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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Apache Impala vs. CouchDB vs. Dolt vs. XTDB

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonDolt  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSAnalytic DBMS for HadoopA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.A MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schemaA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument storeSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.16
Rank#179  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#7  Vector DBMS
Score14.03
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score10.26
Rank#45  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score0.95
Rank#197  Overall
#93  Relational DBMS
Score0.09
Rank#351  Overall
#47  Document stores
Websiteallegrograph.comimpala.apache.orgcouchdb.apache.orggithub.com/­dolthub/­dolt
www.dolthub.com
github.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmlimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmldocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stabledocs.dolthub.comwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperFranz Inc.Apache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerDoltHub IncJuxt Ltd.
Initial release20042013200520182019
Current release8.0, December 20234.1.0, June 20223.3.3, December 20231.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++ErlangGoClojure
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.no infobulk load of XML files possiblenononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia viewsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyeslimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON APICLI Client
HTTP REST
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common Lispyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceView functions in JavaScriptyes infocurrently in alpha releaseno
Triggersyesnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith FederationShardingSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0nonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
A database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.yes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReduceyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono infoatomic operations within a single document possibleACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseOnly one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startup
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AllegroGraphApache ImpalaCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"DoltXTDB infoformerly named Crux
Specific characteristicsKnowledge Graph Platform Leader FedShard - Designed for Entity-Event Knowledge Graph...
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Competitive advantagesAllegroGraph is uniquely suited to support adhoc queries through SPARQL, Prolog and...
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