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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. searchxml vs. TimescaleDB

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGE  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSFairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environmentsGoogle's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Native XML DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.06
Rank#187  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#7  Vector DBMS
Score0.02
Rank#368  Overall
#54  Key-value stores
#156  Relational DBMS
Score3.26
Rank#92  Overall
#13  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#25  Search engines
Score4.64
Rank#71  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Websiteallegrograph.comwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edgecloud.google.com/­bigtablewww.searchxml.net/­category/­productswww.timescale.com
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmldocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.htmlcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docswww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutsdocs.timescale.com
DeveloperFranz Inc.FairCom CorporationGoogleinformationpartners gmbhTimescale
Initial release20041979201520152017
Current release8.0, December 2023V3, October 20201.02.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freecommercial infoRestricted, free version availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageANSI C, C++C++C
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Android
Linux infoARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows
hostedWindowsLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesnoyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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 possibleyesnoyesyes
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languageyes infoANSI SQL queriesnonoyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common Lispyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++noyes infoon the application serveruser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersyesyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith FederationFile partitioning infoCustomizable business rules for partitioningShardingnoneyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infoSynchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logsInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infowhen using SQLnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDAtomic single-row operationsmultiple readers, single writerACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoacross SQL and NoSQLyesyesyes
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.noyesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationFine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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AllegroGraphFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGEGoogle Cloud BigtablesearchxmlTimescaleDB
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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