DBMS > Aerospike vs. AllegroGraph vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Infobright vs. Microsoft SQL Server

System Properties Comparison Aerospike vs. AllegroGraph vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Infobright vs. Microsoft SQL Server

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Name

This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Flash-optimized In-memory NoSQL Database

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

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS

leveraging Apache Tinkerpop
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	5.78
Rank	#61	Overall
	#11	Document stores
	#3	Graph DBMS
	#7	Key-value stores
	#2	Spatial DBMS

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

Score	0.96
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Website

aerospike.com

allegrograph.com

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

Technical documentation

docs.aerospike.com

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

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

Social network pages

Developer

Aerospike

Franz Inc.

Atos Convergence Creators

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Microsoft

Initial release

2012

2004

2016

2005

1989

Current release

7.0, November 2023

8.0, December 2023

1703

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache and AGPL Licenses; open sourced in June 2014; commercial Enterprise Edition available

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF schemas

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol
TinkerPop Gremlin

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

LDAP

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

All languages with LDAP bindings

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

with Lua

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

with Federation

Sharding

cell division

none

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Aerospike Aggregation Framework is similar to Map/Reduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency in cross-datacenter configuration and Immediate Consistency in local cluster configuration

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of operations

ACID

Atomic execution of specific operations

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

with Enterprise Edition only

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

LDAP bind authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Nielsen, Williams-Sonoma, Inmobi, AppNexus, Telco (confidential), Financial Services...
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

Subscription-based Enterprise Edition and free, open-source Community Edition
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News

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9 February 2024

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23 January 2024

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8 January 2024

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