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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. MonetDB vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. SAP HANA vs. TempoIQ

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.13
Rank	#179	Overall
	#30	Document stores
	#17	Graph DBMS
	#7	RDF stores
	#8	Vector DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#141	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	3.05
Rank	#97	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#16	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

allegrograph.com

www.monetdb.org

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

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

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Franz Inc.

MonetDB BV

Oracle

SAP

TempoIQ

Initial release

2004

2011

2010

2012

Current release

8.0, December 2023

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

24.1, May 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

yes

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

yes, in SQL, C, R

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

Sharding via remote tables

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency
Immediate 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

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

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

off heap cache

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

yes

simple authentication-based access control

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