DBMS > AllegroGraph vs. EJDB vs. Hive vs. Snowflake vs. Transwarp KunDB

System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. EJDB vs. Hive vs. Snowflake vs. Transwarp KunDB

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Name

Description

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

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

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

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

OLTP DBMS based on a distributed architecture and highly compatible with MySQL and Oracle

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Document store

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	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	61.17
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#344	Overall
	#151	Relational DBMS

Website

allegrograph.com

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

hive.apache.org

www.snowflake.com

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/kundb

Technical documentation

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

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

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

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Franz Inc.

Softmotions

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Transwarp

Initial release

2004

2012

2014

Current release

8.0, December 2023

3.1.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

schema-free

yes

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

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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

in-process shared library

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
PHP
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

none

Sharding

yes

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

selectable replication factor

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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

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.

User concepts

Access control

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles

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

yes

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