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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Oracle Rdb vs. SAP HANA vs. SingleStore vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

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

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

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

An in-memory SQL relational database that delivers microsecond response and high throughput for OLTP applications. TimesTen can be deployed as a standalone database or as a cache to a backend Oracle database.

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.84
Rank	#204	Overall
	#35	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS
	#7	RDF stores
	#10	Vector DBMS

Score	1.04
Rank	#184	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	4.02
Rank	#74	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	1.26
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

allegrograph.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.singlestore.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

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

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

help.sap.com/hana

docs.singlestore.com

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

Developer

Franz Inc.

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

SAP

SingleStore Inc.

Oracle

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2004

1984

2010

2013

1998

Current release

8.0, December 2023

7.4.1.1, 2021

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

8.5, January 2024

Release 22.1

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C++, Go

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

HP Open VMS

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

64 bit version required

IBM AIX Power PC 64-bit
Linux arm64
Linux x86-64
Solaris SPARC 64
Solaris SPARC/x86
Solaris x86-64

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

JDBC
ODBC

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Pro*C/C++ programming interfaces
SQL and PL/SQL via JDBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

C
C++
Java
Node.js
PL/SQL
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

SQLScript, R

yes

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

yes

Sharding

hash partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes, on a single node

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

yes

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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