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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. MySQL

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Name

Description

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

Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

Cloud-based data warehousing service

Widely used open source RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.84
Rank	#204	Overall
	#35	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS
	#7	RDF stores
	#10	Vector DBMS

Score	13.60
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	1.26
Rank	#162	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Score	1029.49
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Website

allegrograph.com

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

www.mysql.com

Technical documentation

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

firebase.google.com/docs/database

dev.mysql.com/doc

Developer

Franz Inc.

Google

acquired by Google 2014

IBM

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Initial release

2004

2012

2014

1995

Current release

8.0, December 2023

9.0.0, July 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

schema-free

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

Import/export of XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

limited functionality with using 'rules'

PL/SQL, SQL PL

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

yes, based on authentication and database rules

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

More information provided by the system vendor

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