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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. AllegroGraph vs. Bangdb vs. Cachelot.io vs. OrientDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphIn-memory caching systemMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Key-value storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score1.06
Rank#187  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#7  Vector DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#347  Overall
#47  Document stores
#34  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Score3.19
Rank#93  Overall
#16  Document stores
#7  Graph DBMS
#14  Key-value stores
Websitealasql.orgallegrograph.combangdb.comcachelot.ioorientdb.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmldocs.bangdb.comwww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffFranz Inc.Sachin Sinha, BangDBOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP
Initial release20142004201220152010
Current release8.0, December 2023BangDB 2.0, October 20213.2.29, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoSimplified BSD LicenseOpen Source infoApache version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC, C++C++Java
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoRDF schemasschema-freeschema-freeschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsnoyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nono infobulk load of XML files possiblenonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SPARQL is used as query languageSQL like support with command line toolnoSQL-like query language, no joins
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Memcached protocolTinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoJavaScript or Common LispnonoJava, Javascript
Triggersyesyesyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)noHooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonewith FederationSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)noneMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono infocould be achieved with distributed queries
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes inforelationship in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellnoyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes, run db with in-memory only modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationyes (enterprise version only)noAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurable
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AlaSQLAllegroGraphBangdbCachelot.ioOrientDB
Specific characteristicsKnowledge Graph Platform Leader FedShard - Designed for Entity-Event Knowledge Graph...
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Competitive advantagesAllegroGraph is uniquely suited to support adhoc queries through SPARQL, Prolog and...
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