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

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Name

Description

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

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.11
Rank	#167	Overall
	#29	Document stores
	#14	Graph DBMS
	#7	RDF stores

Score	5.46
Rank	#76	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#330	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

allegrograph.com

hsqldb.org

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

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

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

Developer

Franz Inc.

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2004

2001

2020

Current release

7.2.0, October 2021

2.6.1, October 2021

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

based on BSD license

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

Linux

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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News

Franz Inc. Named to Database Trends and Applications Top 100 Companies
10 June 2022

The Foundation of Data Fabrics and AI: Semantic Knowledge Graphs
20 May 2022

SCALE 2022 – Southern California Linux Expo
19 May 2022

IEEE – ICHI – Healthcare Informatics
19 May 2022

The Knowledge Graph Conference 2022
4 May 2022

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