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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Microsoft SQL Server

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Name

Description

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

Microsofts relational DBMS

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

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Score	1.31
Rank	#147	Overall
	#25	Document stores
	#12	Graph DBMS
	#7	RDF stores

Score	1015.30
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Website

allegrograph.com

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

Technical documentation

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

docs.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

Developer

Franz Inc.

Microsoft

Initial release

2004

1989

Current release

7.0.0, April 2020

SQL Server 2019, November 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
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

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

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

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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News

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1 February 2021

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6 November 2020

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3 November 2020

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27 October 2020

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7 October 2020

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