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DBMS > AllegroGraph vs. EXASOL vs. Google BigQuery vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. EXASOL vs. Google BigQuery vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Snowflake

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle BigQuery  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tablesCloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score1.16
Rank#179  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#7  Vector DBMS
Score2.25
Rank#120  Overall
#57  Relational DBMS
Score61.90
Rank#19  Overall
#13  Relational DBMS
Score8.96
Rank#48  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score123.20
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Websiteallegrograph.comwww.exasol.comcloud.google.com/­bigqueryfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorewww.snowflake.com
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmlwww.exasol.com/­resourcescloud.google.com/­bigquery/­docsfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoredocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperFranz Inc.ExasolGoogleGoogleSnowflake Computing Inc.
Initial release20042000201020172014
Current release8.0, December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesyesyes
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Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedhostedhosted
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasyesyesschema-freeyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 possiblenononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languageyesyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIAndroid
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
Java
Lua
Python
R
.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common Lispuser defined functionsuser defined functions infoin JavaScriptyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsuser defined functions
Triggersyesyesnoyes, with Cloud Functionsno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resources
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith FederationShardingnoneShardingyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoHadoop integrationnoUsing Cloud Dataflowno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno infoSince BigQuery is designed for querying datayesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardAccess privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level infoGoogle Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication
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AllegroGraphEXASOLGoogle BigQueryGoogle Cloud FirestoreSnowflake
Specific characteristicsKnowledge Graph Platform Leader FedShard - Designed for Entity-Event Knowledge Graph...
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Competitive advantagesAllegroGraph is uniquely suited to support adhoc queries through SPARQL, Prolog and...
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