DBMS > AllegroGraph vs. OrientDB vs. Snowflake vs. TDSQL for MySQL vs. Transwarp StellarDB

System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. OrientDB vs. Snowflake vs. TDSQL for MySQL vs. Transwarp StellarDB

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Name

Description

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

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

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

A high-performance distributed database management system with features such as automatic sharding, intelligent operation and maintenance, elastic scalability without downtime, and enterprise-grade security. It is highly compatible with MySQL.

A distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.06
Rank	#187	Overall
	#30	Document stores
	#17	Graph DBMS
	#7	RDF stores
	#7	Vector DBMS

Score	3.19
Rank	#93	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#7	Graph DBMS
	#14	Key-value stores

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.85
Rank	#205	Overall
	#95	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

Website

allegrograph.com

orientdb.org

www.snowflake.com

www.tencentcloud.com/products/dcdb

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/stellardb

Technical documentation

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

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/1042

Developer

Franz Inc.

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Tencent

Transwarp

Initial release

2004

2010

2014

2013

Current release

8.0, December 2023

3.2.29, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Apache version 2

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 JDK (>= JDK 6)

hosted

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

yes

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

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

SQL-like query language, no joins

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

OpenCypher

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

Java, Javascript

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Hooks

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

Sharding

yes

Automatic sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

could be achieved with distributed queries

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

relationship in graphs

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.

User concepts

Access control

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

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

yes

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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