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DBMS > AllegroGraph vs. HBase vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. HBase vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Trafodion

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. 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 BigTableIn-memory JavaScript DBMSElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Wide column storeDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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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
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score20.56
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Websiteallegrograph.comhbase.apache.orggithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticstrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmlhbase.apache.org/­book.htmltechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticstrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperFranz Inc.Apache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetMicrosoftApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20042008201420162014
Current release8.0, December 20232.3.4, January 20212.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoApache version 2Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScriptC++C++, Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedLinux
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROnoyesyes
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 possiblenononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infovia viewsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languagenonoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
JavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
JavaScriptC#
Java
PHP
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common Lispyes infoCoprocessors in JavaView functions in JavaScriptTransact SQLJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyesyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith FederationShardingnoneSharding, horizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneyesyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesnoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)no infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesno
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 & ABACnoyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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AllegroGraphHBaseLokiJSMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data WarehouseTrafodion
Specific characteristicsKnowledge Graph Platform Leader FedShard - Designed for Entity-Event Knowledge Graph...
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Competitive advantagesAllegroGraph is uniquely suited to support adhoc queries through SPARQL, Prolog and...
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