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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. KairosDB vs. Snowflake vs. Tarantool

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Name

Description

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

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

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

In-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applications

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Tarantool/GIS extension

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Score	1.16
Rank	#179	Overall
	#30	Document stores
	#17	Graph DBMS
	#7	RDF stores
	#7	Vector DBMS

Score	0.71
Rank	#230	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	123.20
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	1.67
Rank	#150	Overall
	#25	Document stores
	#25	Key-value stores
	#69	Relational DBMS

Website

allegrograph.com

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

www.snowflake.com

www.tarantool.io

Technical documentation

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

kairosdb.github.io

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

www.tarantool.io/en/doc

Developer

Franz Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2004

2013

2014

2008

Current release

8.0, December 2023

1.2.2, November 2018

2.10.0, May 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

BSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

BSD
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

schema-free

yes

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

Flexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columns

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetime

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

yes

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Open binary protocol

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

user defined functions

Lua, C and SQL stored procedures

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

Sharding

based on Cassandra

yes

Sharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

Asynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)

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

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Casual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition

when using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition

when using Raft

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactions

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, cooperative multitasking

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, write ahead logging

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence

User concepts

Access control

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

simple password-based access control

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

Access Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles

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