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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. GBase vs. SAP IQ vs. TimescaleDB vs. YottaDB

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparisonYottaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analyticsA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQLA fast and solid embedded Key-value store
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn-orientedTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infousing the Octo plugin
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.13
Rank#179  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#7  Vector DBMS
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score2.64
Rank#108  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Score4.46
Rank#71  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#306  Overall
#44  Key-value stores
Websiteallegrograph.comwww.gbase.cnwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.htmlwww.timescale.comyottadb.com
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmlhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQdocs.timescale.comyottadb.com/­resources/­documentation
DeveloperFranz Inc.General Data Technology Co., Ltd.SAP, formerly SybaseTimescaleYottaDB, LLC
Initial release20042004199420172001
Current release8.0, December 2023GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c16.1 SPS04, April 20192.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL 3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonCC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Docker
Linux
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data typesno
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 possibleyesnoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languageStandard with numerous extensionsyesyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntaxby using the Octo plugin
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
PostgreSQL wire protocol infousing the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common Lispuser defined functionsyesuser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersyesyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith Federationhorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexeryes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesSAP/Sybase Replication ServerSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas infoyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoHadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers and groups based on OS-security mechanisms
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AllegroGraphGBaseSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQTimescaleDBYottaDB
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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