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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. CrateDB vs. Hive vs. mSQL vs. TigerGraph

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSDistributed Database based on Lucenedata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
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
Score0.73
Rank#229  Overall
#37  Document stores
#5  Spatial DBMS
#16  Search engines
#19  Time Series DBMS
#8  Vector DBMS
Score62.59
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score1.67
Rank#151  Overall
#70  Relational DBMS
Score1.83
Rank#141  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websiteallegrograph.comcratedb.comhive.apache.orghughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlwww.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmlcratedb.com/­docscwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homedocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperFranz Inc.CrateApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookHughes Technologies
Initial release20042013201219942017
Current release8.0, December 20233.1.3, April 20224.4, October 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infofree licenses can be providedcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaCC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator supportAll OS with a Java VMAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 possiblenonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languageyes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilitySQL-like DML and DDL statementsA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersSQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
.NET
Erlang
Go infocommunity maintained client
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) infocommunity maintained client
Perl infocommunity maintained client
PHP
Python
R
Ruby infocommunity maintained client
Scala infocommunity maintained client
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common Lispuser defined functions (Javascript)yes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenoyes
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith FederationShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Configurable replication on table/partition-levelselectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level
Eventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infounique row identifiers can be used for implementing an optimistic concurrency control strategynonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesnoyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationrights management via user accountsAccess rights for users, groups and rolesnoRole-based access control
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AllegroGraphCrateDBHivemSQL infoMini SQLTigerGraph
Specific characteristicsKnowledge Graph Platform Leader FedShard - Designed for Entity-Event Knowledge Graph...
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The enterprise database for time series, documents, and vectors. Distributed - Native...
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Competitive advantagesAllegroGraph is uniquely suited to support adhoc queries through SPARQL, Prolog and...
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Response time in milliseconds: e ven for complex ad-hoc queries. Massive scaling...
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Typical application scenarios​ IoT: accelerate your IIoT projects with CrateDB, delivering real-time analytics...
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Key customersAcross all continents, CrateDB is used by companies of all sizes to meet the most...
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Market metricsThe CrateDB open source project was started in 2013 Honorable Mention in 2021 Gartner®...
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Licensing and pricing modelsSee CrateDB pricing >
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