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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Apache Drill vs. Firebird vs. TimescaleDB vs. Vitess

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQLScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Document store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score1.13
Rank#179  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#7  Vector DBMS
Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score4.46
Rank#71  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.88
Rank#203  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Websiteallegrograph.comdrill.apache.orgwww.firebirdsql.orgwww.timescale.comvitess.io
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmldrill.apache.org/­docswww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.timescale.comvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperFranz Inc.Apache Software FoundationFirebird FoundationTimescaleThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release200420122000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20172013
Current release8.0, December 20231.20.3, January 20235.0.0, January 20242.15.0, May 202415.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++CGo
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data typesyes
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 possiblenoyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languageSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantyesyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntaxyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common Lispuser defined functionsPSQLuser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shellyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersyesnoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith FederationShardingnoneyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas infoMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noDepending on the underlying data sourcenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationDepending on the underlying data sourceUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles
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AllegroGraphApache DrillFirebirdTimescaleDBVitess
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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