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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Ehcache vs. SAP IQ vs. Snowflake vs. Sphinx

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Name

Description

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

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

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

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

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

Score	4.64
Rank	#68	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	5.95
Rank	#55	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

allegrograph.com

www.ehcache.org

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

www.snowflake.com

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

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

www.ehcache.org/documentation

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Franz Inc.

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

SAP, formerly Sybase

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2004

2009

1994

2014

2001

Current release

8.0, December 2023

3.10.0, March 2022

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

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

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

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

JCache

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

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

by using Terracotta Server

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

yes

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

by using Terracotta Server

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

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

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

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Competitive advantages

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