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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Heroic vs. Ingres vs. Rockset vs. RRDtool

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchWell established RDBMSA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.06
Rank#187  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#7  Vector DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score4.11
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score1.87
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Websiteallegrograph.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingresrockset.comoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmlspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.actian.com/­ingresdocs.rockset.comoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doc
DeveloperFranz Inc.SpotifyActian CorporationRocksetTobias Oetiker
Initial release200420141974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s20191999
Current release8.0, December 202311.2, May 20221.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSS
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaCC++C infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
hostedHP-UX
Linux
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesdynamic typingNumeric data only
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 possiblenono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableno infoingestion from XML files supportedno infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possible
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesall fields are automatically indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languagenoyesRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
HTTP RESTin-process shared library
Pipes
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common Lispnoyesnono
Triggersyesnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith FederationShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslyAutomatic shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesIngres Replicatoryesnone
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 configurationEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCCyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemon
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.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consoleno
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AllegroGraphHeroicIngresRocksetRRDtool
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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