DBMS > AllegroGraph vs. DuckDB vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. DuckDB vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMS

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

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

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial 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	4.57
Rank	#74	Overall
	#40	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#379	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	20.56
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

allegrograph.com

duckdb.org

www.hawkular.org

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

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

duckdb.org/docs

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Franz Inc.

Community supported by Red Hat

Microsoft

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2004

2018

2014

2016

2014

Current release

8.0, December 2023

0.10, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

Linux
OS X
Windows

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C#

3rd party driver
C++
Crystal

3rd party driver
Go

3rd party driver
Java
Lisp

3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby

3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig

3rd party driver

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
PHP

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

Transact SQL

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

yes

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

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