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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Apache Impala vs. Ehcache vs. Firebird vs. RDF4J

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSAnalytic DBMS for HadoopA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSRDF store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
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Score1.16
Rank#179  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#7  Vector DBMS
Score14.03
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score5.23
Rank#68  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score21.06
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score0.71
Rank#231  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websiteallegrograph.comimpala.apache.orgwww.ehcache.orgwww.firebirdsql.orgrdf4j.org
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmlimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlwww.ehcache.org/­documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperFranz Inc.Apache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGFirebird FoundationSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release2004201320092000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2004
Current release8.0, December 20234.1.0, June 20223.10.0, March 20225.0.0, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC and C++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxAll OS with a Java VMAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasyesschema-freeyesyes infoRDF Schemas
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 possiblenono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
JDBC
ODBC
JCacheADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBCJavaC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common Lispyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenoPSQLyes
Triggersyesnoyes infoCache Event Listenersyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith FederationShardingSharding infoby using Terracotta Servernonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factoryes infoby using Terracotta ServerSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual ConsistencyTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as well
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosnoUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptno
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Competitive advantagesAllegroGraph is uniquely suited to support adhoc queries through SPARQL, Prolog and...
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