DBMS > AllegroGraph vs. Amazon Redshift vs. NuoDB vs. Sphinx vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Amazon Redshift vs. NuoDB vs. Sphinx vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

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

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

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

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.89
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	5.98
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Website

allegrograph.com

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

sphinxsearch.com

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

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

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

doc.nuodb.com

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Franz Inc.

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2004

2012

2013

2001

2018

Current release

8.0, December 2023

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

user defined functions

in Python

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

Sharding

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

none

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

tunable commit protocol

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Temporary table

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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Competitive advantages

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