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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. RocksDB vs. Spark SQL vs. TerarkDB

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Name

Description

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

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.16
Rank	#179	Overall
	#30	Document stores
	#17	Graph DBMS
	#7	RDF stores
	#7	Vector DBMS

Score	4.00
Rank	#84	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	19.15
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#377	Overall
	#58	Key-value stores

Website

allegrograph.com

rocksdb.org

spark.apache.org/sql

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

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

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Franz Inc.

Facebook, Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2004

2013

2014

2016

Current release

8.0, December 2023

8.11.4, April 2024

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Java
Python
R
Scala

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

horizontal partitioning

yes, utilizing Spark Core

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

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

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