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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. GigaSpaces vs. RocksDB vs. Splunk vs. Teradata

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Name

Description

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

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Analytics Platform for Big Data

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Key-value store

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Graph DBMS
Search engine

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.06
Rank	#187	Overall
	#30	Document stores
	#17	Graph DBMS
	#7	RDF stores
	#7	Vector DBMS

Score	0.97
Rank	#192	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	45.33
Rank	#21	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

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

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

docs.teradata.com

Developer

Franz Inc.

Gigaspaces Technologies

Facebook, Inc.

Splunk Inc.

Teradata

Initial release

2004

2000

2013

2003

1984

Current release

8.0, December 2023

15.5, September 2020

9.2.1, May 2024

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted
Linux

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

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

C++ API
Java API

HTTP REST

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

yes

yes, event driven architecture

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

yes

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

Role-based access control

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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