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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. LeanXcale vs. OpenQM vs. SQLite vs. Vertica

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Name

Description

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

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Cloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Column oriented

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.06
Rank	#187	Overall
	#30	Document stores
	#17	Graph DBMS
	#7	RDF stores
	#7	Vector DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#291	Overall
	#41	Key-value stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#298	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	10.68
Rank	#43	Overall
	#27	Relational DBMS

Website

allegrograph.com

www.leanxcale.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

www.sqlite.org

www.vertica.com

Technical documentation

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

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

vertica.com/documentation

Developer

Franz Inc.

LeanXcale

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Dwayne Richard Hipp

OpenText

previously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard

Initial release

2004

2015

1993

2000

2005

Current release

8.0, December 2023

3.4-12

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

12.0.3, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

Public Domain

commercial

Limited community edition free

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

on-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

server-less

Linux

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

yes

with some exceptions

yes

dynamic column types

Yes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

No Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

through Apache Derby

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

Full 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL

character-based, interactive, front-end utility

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
Java
Scala

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

yes

yes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences

Triggers

yes

yes, called Custom Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

yes

none

horizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

none

Multi-source replication

One, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Bi-directional Spark 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

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash

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