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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. EDB Postgres vs. Heroic vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Rockset

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSThe EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Document store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
Search engine
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Score1.16
Rank#179  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#7  Vector DBMS
Score2.18
Rank#122  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score0.57
Rank#250  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score4.39
Rank#81  Overall
#13  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#44  Relational DBMS
Score0.84
Rank#209  Overall
#35  Document stores
Websiteallegrograph.comwww.enterprisedb.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-irisrockset.com
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmlwww.enterprisedb.com/­docsspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clsdocs.rockset.com
DeveloperFranz Inc.EnterpriseDBSpotifyInterSystemsRockset
Initial release20042005201420182019
Current release8.0, December 202314, December 20212023.3, June 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freecommercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentsOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageCJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasyesschema-freedepending on used data modelschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesdynamic typing
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 possibleyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.noyesno infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languageyes infostandard with numerous extensionsnoyesRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common Lispuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.noyesno
Triggersyesyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith Federationhorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangeShardingShardingAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationyesSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
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.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console
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AllegroGraphEDB PostgresHeroicInterSystems IRISRockset
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Competitive advantagesAllegroGraph is uniquely suited to support adhoc queries through SPARQL, Prolog and...
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