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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Google BigQuery vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Trafodion

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Name

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Description

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

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Website

allegrograph.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

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

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Franz Inc.

Google

Sybase, SAP

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2004

2010

1993

2014

Current release

8.0, December 2023

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Delphi
Perl
PHP

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

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.

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

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)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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News

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3 April 2024

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9 February 2024

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23 January 2024

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8 January 2024

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