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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

Key-value store based on Berkeley DB Java Edition

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

Primary database model

Document store info

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.87
Rank	#162	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#12	Graph DBMS
	#6	RDF stores

Score	3.39
Rank	#80	Overall
	#13	Key-value stores

Score	2.18
Rank	#106	Overall
	#51	Relational DBMS

Website

franz.com/agraph/allegrograph

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/index.html

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.oracle.com/cd/NOSQL/index.html

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Franz Inc.

Oracle

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2004

2011

2014

Current release

6.6.0, August 2019

18.3, November 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial info

Limited community edition free

Open Source info

Apache V2 for Community Edition, proprietary license for Enterprise Edition

commercial

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) info

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

hosted

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

optional, scheme definition possible with AVRO or in 'table-style'

yes

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

yes

XML support info

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 DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

Sharding

yes

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Master-slave replication
Multi-master replication

Electable Master-Slave per shard

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts info

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency info

depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts info

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

ACID

configurable info

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

ACID

Concurrency info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability info

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities info

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

yes

off heap cache

User concepts info

Access control

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

Access rights for users and roles

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

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Specific characteristics

Knowledge Graph Platform Leader Document Store and Graph Database. Supporting JSON...
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Competitive advantages

AllegroGraph is uniquely suited to support adhoc queries through SPARQL, Prolog and...
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Data can be modeled as relational-database-style tables, JSON documents, RDF Triples...
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Typical application scenarios

Internet of Things where large volume of data needs to be stored and processed very...
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Key customers

Large credit card company Airbus NTT Docomo Global rewards company
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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News

Triple Attributes
2 May 2018

Allegro "Knowledge" Graph News - March 2018
7 March 2018

AllegroGraph v6.4 - Now Available
23 January 2018

AllegroGraph News - December 2017
20 December 2017

AllegroGraph News - November 2017
2 November 2017

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