DBMS > AllegroGraph vs. Graphite vs. Newts vs. Postgres-XL vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Graphite vs. Newts vs. Postgres-XL vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

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

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

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

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

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

Score	4.57
Rank	#73	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

allegrograph.com

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

opennms.github.io/newts

www.postgres-xl.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

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

graphite.readthedocs.io

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Franz Inc.

Chris Davis

OpenNMS Group

SAP

Initial release

2004

2006

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2010

Current release

8.0, December 2023

10 R1, October 2018

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Mozilla public license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Python

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Unix

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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

distributed, parallel query execution

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

HTTP API
Sockets

HTTP REST
Java API

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

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

horizontal partitioning

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

none

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

MVCC

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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