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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. HBase vs. Heroic vs. Kdb vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison
SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchHigh performance Time Series DBMSLow-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Wide column storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.06
Rank#187  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#7  Vector DBMS
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score7.55
Rank#53  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Websiteallegrograph.comhbase.apache.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroickx.comwww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmlhbase.apache.org/­book.htmlspotify.github.io/­heroiccode.kx.com
DeveloperFranz Inc.Apache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetSpotifyKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcSybase, SAP
Initial release2004200820142000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 20031993
Current release8.0, December 20232.3.4, January 20213.6, May 2018
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree 32-bit versioncommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaq
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyesyes
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 possiblenonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languagenonoSQL-like query language (q)yes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
Delphi
Perl
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common Lispyes infoCoprocessors in Javanouser defined functionsyes
Triggersyesyesnoyes infowith viewsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith FederationShardingShardinghorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)nonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyesno infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACrights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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AllegroGraphHBaseHeroicKdbSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS
Specific characteristicsKnowledge Graph Platform Leader FedShard - Designed for Entity-Event Knowledge Graph...
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Integrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantagesAllegroGraph is uniquely suited to support adhoc queries through SPARQL, Prolog and...
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provides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
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