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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Ignite vs. Machbase Neo vs. MySQL vs. SAP IQ

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Name

Description

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

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Widely used open source RDBMS

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	3.11
Rank	#96	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#337	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Website

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

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

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

machbase.com/dbms

dev.mysql.com/doc

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Franz Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Machbase

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2004

2015

2013

1995

1994

Current release

8.0, December 2023

Apache Ignite 2.6

V8.0, August 2023

8.4.0, April 2024

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Java, .Net

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

yes

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

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

Triggers

yes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes (replicated cache)

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Hadoop integration

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

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

volatile and lookup table

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Security Hooks for custom implementations

simple password-based access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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