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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. MariaDB vs. OpenTSDB

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Name

Description

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

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.17
Rank	#200	Overall
	#31	Document stores
	#17	Graph DBMS
	#7	RDF stores

Score	96.84
Rank	#13	Overall
	#9	Relational DBMS

Score	2.32
Rank	#132	Overall
	#10	Time Series DBMS

Website

allegrograph.com

mariadb.com

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org

Site of MariaDB Foundation

opentsdb.net

Technical documentation

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

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

Developer

Franz Inc.

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server)

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Initial release

2004

2009

Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995

2011

Current release

7.2.0, October 2021

10.10.3, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

Open Source

LGPL

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP API
Telnet API

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

with MEMORY storage engine

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

Knowledge Graph Platform Leader FedShard - Designed for Entity-Event Knowledge Graph...
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MariaDB is the most powerful open source relational database – modern SQL and JSON...
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Competitive advantages

AllegroGraph is uniquely suited to support adhoc queries through SPARQL, Prolog and...
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MariaDB has many features unavailable in other open source relational databases....
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Typical application scenarios

Web, SaaS and Cloud operational/transactional applications that require high availability,...
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Key customers

Deutsche Bank, DBS Bank, Nasdaq, Red Hat, ServiceNow, Verizon and Walgreens Featured...
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Market metrics

MariaDB is the default database in the LAMP stack supplied by Red Hat and SUSE Linux,...
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News

Franz Inc. Named to KMWorld’s – 100 Companies That Matter in Knowledge Management
15 March 2023

What is a Semantic Layer?
6 January 2023

AllegroGraph Named “2023 – Trend Setting Product” by Database Trends and Applications
4 January 2023

The Hype Around Semantic Layers: How Important Are Standards?
11 November 2022

AllegroGraph Named “2022 Best Knowledge Graph” by KMWorld Readers’ Choice
9 November 2022

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