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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Graphite vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. OrientDB vs. Snowflake

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score1.13
Rank#179  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#7  Vector DBMS
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#309  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score3.25
Rank#89  Overall
#16  Document stores
#6  Graph DBMS
#13  Key-value stores
Score130.36
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Websiteallegrograph.comgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storeorientdb.orgwww.snowflake.com
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmlgraphite.readthedocs.iowww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storewww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.htmldocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperFranz Inc.Chris DavisIBMOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAPSnowflake Computing Inc.
Initial release20042006201720102014
Current release8.0, December 20232.03.2.29, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoApache version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languagePythonC and C++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Linux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionAll OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)hosted
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasyesyesschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")yes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyesyesyes
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 possiblenononoyes
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languagenoyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeSQL-like query language, no joinsyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
HTTP API
Sockets
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common LispnoyesJava, Javascriptuser defined functions
TriggersyesnonoHooksno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resources
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith FederationnoneShardingShardingyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneActive-active shard replicationMulti-source replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono infocould be achieved with distributed queriesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes inforelationship in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingNo - written data is immutableyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurableUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication
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Competitive advantagesAllegroGraph is uniquely suited to support adhoc queries through SPARQL, Prolog and...
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