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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. gStore vs. Rockset vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

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

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.14
Rank	#342	Overall
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#16	RDF stores

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

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

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

docs.rockset.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Franz Inc.

Rockset

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2004

2016

2019

2014

Current release

8.0, December 2023

1.2, November 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

schema-free

yes

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

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

ingestion from XML files supported

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

HTTP REST

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

Automatic sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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