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DBMS > AllegroGraph vs. Greenplum vs. MaxDB

System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Greenplum vs. MaxDB

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSAnalytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database infoA logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.72
Rank#216  Overall
#36  Document stores
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
#15  Vector DBMS
Score7.08
Rank#48  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score1.94
Rank#117  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Websiteallegrograph.comgreenplum.orgmaxdb.sap.com
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmldocs.greenplum.orgmaxdb.sap.com/­documentation
DeveloperFranz Inc.Pivotal Software Inc.SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997
Initial release200420051984
Current release8.0, December 20237.0.0, September 20237.9.10.12, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freecommercial infoApache 2.0commercial infoLimited community edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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 possibleyes infosince Version 4.2no
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languageyesyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
Java
Perl
Python
R
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common Lispyesyes
Triggersyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith FederationShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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