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DBMS > AllegroGraph vs. GeoMesa vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. GeoMesa vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Trafodion

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Spatial DBMSKey-value store
Wide column store
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score1.13
Rank#179  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#8  Vector DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score3.15
Rank#95  Overall
#14  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Websiteallegrograph.comwww.geomesa.orgcloud.google.com/­bigtableazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticstrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmlwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docsdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticstrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperFranz Inc.CCRi and othersGoogleMicrosoftApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20042014201520162014
Current release8.0, December 20235.0.0, May 20242.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesyesno
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Implementation languageScalaC++C++, Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedhostedLinux
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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 possiblenononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languagenonoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
PHP
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common LispnonoTransact SQLJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith Federationdepending on storage layerShardingSharding, horizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
depending on storage layerInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesyesyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesnoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationdepending on storage layerImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoAtomic single-row operationsACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.nodepending on storage layernono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)yesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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AllegroGraphGeoMesaGoogle Cloud BigtableMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data WarehouseTrafodion
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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