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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. EJDB vs. IBM Db2 vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SingleStore

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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)

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.13
Rank	#179	Overall
	#30	Document stores
	#17	Graph DBMS
	#7	RDF stores
	#8	Vector DBMS

Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	125.90
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	5.38
Rank	#62	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Website

allegrograph.com

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.ibm.com/products/db2

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

www.singlestore.com

Technical documentation

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

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

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

docs.singlestore.com

Developer

Franz Inc.

Softmotions

IBM

Microsoft

SingleStore Inc.

Initial release

2004

2012

1983

host version

1989

2013

Current release

8.0, December 2023

12.1, October 2016

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

8.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

free version is available

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

C++, Go

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux
Windows

Linux

64 bit version required

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

schema-free

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

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

in-process shared library

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
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
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

yes

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

none

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Sharding

hash partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

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