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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

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

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.92
Rank	#165	Overall
	#24	Document stores
	#14	Graph DBMS
	#7	RDF stores

Score	2.73
Rank	#101	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS

Website

allegrograph.com

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Franz Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2004

2014

Current release

7.0, April 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial info

Limited community edition free

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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Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

yes

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

yes

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Master-slave replication
Multi-master replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts info

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency 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

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.

User concepts info

Access control

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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News

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22 June 2020

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5 June 2020

AllegroGraph Tutorial – Distributed Repository Using Shards and Federation Setup
25 May 2020

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12 May 2020

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5 May 2020

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