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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Oracle Coherence vs. RavenDB vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Key-value store

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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

Score	1.97
Rank	#129	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	2.84
Rank	#101	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

allegrograph.com

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

ravendb.net

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

ravendb.net/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Franz Inc.

Oracle

Hibernating Rhinos

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2004

2007

2010

2014

Current release

8.0, December 2023

14.1, August 2023

5.4, July 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

schema-free

yes

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

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

SQL-like query language (RQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C++
Java

.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Live Events

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

configurable

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

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

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

Authorization levels configured per client per database

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

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