DBMS > AllegroGraph vs. HarperDB vs. LokiJS vs. Snowflake vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. HarperDB vs. LokiJS vs. Snowflake vs. Yanza

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Name

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

Ultra-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.

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.13
Rank	#179	Overall
	#30	Document stores
	#17	Graph DBMS
	#7	RDF stores
	#8	Vector DBMS

Score	0.60
Rank	#244	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

allegrograph.com

www.harperdb.io

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.snowflake.com

yanza.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.harperdb.io/docs

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Franz Inc.

HarperDB

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Yanza

Initial release

2004

2017

2014

2015

Current release

8.0, December 2023

3.1, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

Node.js

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

hosted

Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

dynamic schema

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

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

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

SQL-like data manipulation statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

JavaScript API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
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

JavaScript

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

View functions in JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

none

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

none

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of specific operations

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using LMDB

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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

Access rights for users and roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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