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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Altibase vs. Apache Cassandra vs. H2 vs. OpenEdge

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonApache Cassandra  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSWide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB infoOptimized for write accessFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Application development environment with integrated database management system
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSVector DBMS infostarting with release V5Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.75
Rank#215  Overall
#36  Document stores
#19  Graph DBMS
#9  RDF stores
#11  Vector DBMS
Score0.84
Rank#204  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score97.71
Rank#11  Overall
#1  Wide column stores
Score7.10
Rank#47  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score3.56
Rank#78  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Websiteallegrograph.comaltibase.comcassandra.apache.orgwww.h2database.comwww.progress.com/­openedge
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmlgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualscassandra.apache.org/­doc/­latestwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmldocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latest
DeveloperFranz Inc.AltibaseApache Software Foundation infoApache top level project, originally developped by FacebookThomas MuellerProgress Software Corporation
Initial release20041999200820051984
Current release8.0, December 2023v7.3, 2023, August 20235.0-rc1, July 20242.2.220, July 2023OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.no infobulk load of XML files possiblenononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesrestricted infoonly equality queries, not always the best performing solutionyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languageANSI SQL-92SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)yesyes infoclose to SQL 92
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Proprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C++
Java
C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaProgress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common Lispstored procedures and stored functionsnoJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsyes
Triggersyesyesyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith FederationShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"nonehorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per objectfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers and groups
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AllegroGraphAltibaseApache CassandraH2OpenEdge
Specific characteristicsApache Cassandra is the leading NoSQL, distributed database management system, well...
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Competitive advantagesNo single point of failure ensures 100% availability . Operational simplicity for...
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Typical application scenariosInternet of Things (IOT), fraud detection applications, recommendation engines, product...
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Key customersApple, Netflix, Uber, ING,, Intuit,Fidelity, NY Times, Outbrain, BazaarVoice, Best...
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Market metricsApache Cassandra is used by 40% of the Fortune 100.
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache license  Pricing for commercial distributions provided by DataStax and available...
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