DBMS > AllegroGraph vs. Google BigQuery vs. JanusGraph vs. jBASE vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Google BigQuery vs. JanusGraph vs. jBASE vs. Postgres-XL

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Name

Description

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

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

It was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.13
Rank	#179	Overall
	#30	Document stores
	#17	Graph DBMS
	#7	RDF stores
	#7	Vector DBMS

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	2.02
Rank	#125	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Website

allegrograph.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

janusgraph.org

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

www.postgres-xl.org

Technical documentation

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

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.janusgraph.org

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

Franz Inc.

Google

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Initial release

2004

2010

2017

1991

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

Current release

8.0, December 2023

0.6.3, February 2023

5.7

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Clojure
Java
Python

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

none

yes

depending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

MVCC

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

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

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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