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

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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

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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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	1.46
Rank	#159	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

allegrograph.com

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

www.snowflake.com

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

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

kairosdb.github.io

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Franz Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2004

2013

2014

2010

Current release

8.0, December 2023

1.2.2, November 2018

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Java, C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

schema-free

yes

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

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

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

user defined functions

Java

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

Sharding

based on Cassandra

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

In-memory capabilities

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

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

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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