DBMS > AllegroGraph vs. Apache IoTDB vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. ClickHouse vs. InterSystems IRIS

System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Apache IoTDB vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. ClickHouse vs. InterSystems IRIS

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Name

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

Description

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

An IoT native database with high performance for data management and analysis, deployable on the edge and the cloud and integrated with Hadoop, Spark and Flink

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

A high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.16
Rank	#179	Overall
	#30	Document stores
	#17	Graph DBMS
	#7	RDF stores
	#7	Vector DBMS

Score	1.19
Rank	#176	Overall
	#15	Time Series DBMS

Score	16.20
Rank	#37	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	4.39
Rank	#81	Overall
	#13	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#44	Relational DBMS

Website

allegrograph.com

iotdb.apache.org

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

clickhouse.com

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

Technical documentation

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

iotdb.apache.org/UserGuide/Master/QuickStart/QuickStart.html

clickhouse.com/docs

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

Developer

Franz Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Atos Convergence Creators

Clickhouse Inc.

InterSystems

Initial release

2004

2018

2016

2018

Current release

8.0, December 2023

1.1.0, April 2023

1703

v24.3.2.23-lts, April 2024

2023.3, June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

yes

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

yes

depending on used data model

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

SQL-like query language

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

JDBC
Native API

LDAP

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

All languages with LDAP bindings

3rd party library
C++
Elixir

3rd party library
Go

3rd party library
Java

3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party library
Kotlin

3rd party library
Nim

3rd party library
Perl

3rd party library
PHP

3rd party library
Python

3rd party library
R

3rd party library
Ruby

3rd party library
Rust
Scala

3rd party library

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

horizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)

Sharding

cell division

key based and custom

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicas

yes

Asynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Integration with Hadoop and Spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft

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

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

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

yes

LDAP bind authentication

Access rights for users and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.

yes

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