DBMS > AllegroGraph vs. EXASOL vs. Geode vs. SAP IQ vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. EXASOL vs. Geode vs. SAP IQ vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

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

column-oriented

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	1.99
Rank	#124	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#131	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

allegrograph.com

www.exasol.com

geode.apache.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

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

www.exasol.com/resources

geode.apache.org/docs

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Franz Inc.

Exasol

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

SAP, formerly Sybase

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2004

2000

2002

1994

2014

Current release

8.0, December 2023

1.1, February 2017

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

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

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
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

SQL-like query language (OQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java
Lua
Python
R

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

user defined functions

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

Sharding

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes, on a single node

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Access rights per client and object definable

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

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