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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. HarperDB vs. HyperSQL vs. OpenEdge vs. SWC-DB

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSUltra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score1.06
Rank#187  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#7  Vector DBMS
Score0.55
Rank#248  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score3.49
Rank#87  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
Score3.51
Rank#86  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#376  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websiteallegrograph.comwww.harperdb.iohsqldb.orgwww.progress.com/­openedgegithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmldocs.harperdb.io/­docshsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmldocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latest
DeveloperFranz Inc.HarperDBProgress Software CorporationAlex Kashirin
Initial release20042017200119842020
Current release8.0, December 20233.1, August 20212.7.2, June 2023OpenEdge 12.2, March 20200.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infobased on BSD licensecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageNode.jsJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
All OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasdynamic schemayesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoJSON data typesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languageSQL-like data manipulation statementsyesyes infoclose to SQL 92SQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common LispCustom Functions infosince release 3.1Java, SQLyesno
Triggersyesnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith FederationA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusternonehorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definednoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic execution of specific operationsACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, using LMDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers and groups
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AllegroGraphHarperDBHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDBOpenEdgeSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database
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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