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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. DolphinDB vs. Snowflake vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

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

DolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.

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

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.06
Rank	#187	Overall
	#30	Document stores
	#17	Graph DBMS
	#7	RDF stores
	#7	Vector DBMS

Score	4.13
Rank	#80	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

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

docs.dolphindb.cn/en/help200/index.html

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Franz Inc.

DolphinDB, Inc

Snowflake Computing Inc.

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2004

2018

2014

2011

Current release

8.0, December 2023

v2.00.4, January 2022

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

free community version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

hosted

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

yes

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

yes

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 query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

.Net

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

horizontal partitioning

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

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

Administrators, Users, Groups

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

Based on Windows Authentication

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