DBMS > AllegroGraph vs. Datomic vs. Hive vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Datomic vs. Hive vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

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

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.16
Rank	#179	Overall
	#30	Document stores
	#17	Graph DBMS
	#7	RDF stores
	#7	Vector DBMS

Score	1.76
Rank	#145	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	62.59
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	4.57
Rank	#78	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	123.20
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

allegrograph.com

www.datomic.com

hive.apache.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.datomic.com

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Franz Inc.

Cognitect

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

SAP

formerly Sybase

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2004

2012

1992

2014

Current release

8.0, December 2023

1.0.6735, June 2023

3.1.3, April 2022

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

Clojure
Java

C++
Java
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

yes

Transaction Functions

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

By using transaction functions

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Sharding

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

recommended only for testing and development

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

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Competitive advantages

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