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DBMS > AllegroGraph vs. Geode vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Snowflake vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Geode vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Snowflake vs. SQream DB

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesCloud-based data warehousing serviceCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.16
Rank#179  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#7  Vector DBMS
Score1.99
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score1.34
Rank#166  Overall
#76  Relational DBMS
Score123.20
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score0.73
Rank#228  Overall
#105  Relational DBMS
Websiteallegrograph.comgeode.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousewww.snowflake.comsqream.com
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmlgeode.apache.org/­docsdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmldocs.sqream.com
DeveloperFranz Inc.Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.IBMSnowflake Computing Inc.SQream Technologies
Initial release20042002201420142017
Current release8.0, December 20231.1, February 20172022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfirecommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesyesno
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Implementation languageJavaC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredhostedhostedLinux
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasschema-freeyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL 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 possiblenono infoImport/export of XML data possibleyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languageSQL-like query language (OQL)yesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common Lispuser defined functionsPL/SQL, SQL PLuser defined functionsuser defined functions in Python
Triggersyesyes infoCache Event Listenersyesno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith FederationShardingShardingyeshorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationyesyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes, on a single nodeACIDACIDACID
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.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationAccess rights per client and object definablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication
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