DBMS > AllegroGraph vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Cassandra vs. eXtremeDB vs. Graph Engine

System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Cassandra vs. eXtremeDB vs. Graph Engine

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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

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

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Wide column store

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

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Trend Chart

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

Score	101.89
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	0.74
Rank	#223	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.61
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Website

allegrograph.com

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

cassandra.apache.org

www.mcobject.com

www.graphengine.io

Technical documentation

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

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

Developer

Franz Inc.

Atos Convergence Creators

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

McObject

Microsoft

Initial release

2004

2016

2008

2001

2010

Current release

8.0, December 2023

1703

4.1.3, July 2023

8.2, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

.NET and C

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

.NET

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

schema-free

yes

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

support of XML interfaces available

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

LDAP

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

All languages with LDAP bindings

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

yes

Triggers

yes

by defining events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

Sharding

cell division

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

horizontal partitioning / sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

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

LDAP bind authentication

Access rights for users can be defined per object

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Specific characteristics

Knowledge Graph Platform Leader FedShard - Designed for Entity-Event Knowledge Graph...
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Apache Cassandra is the leading NoSQL, distributed database management system, well...
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Competitive advantages

AllegroGraph is uniquely suited to support adhoc queries through SPARQL, Prolog and...
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No single point of failure ensures 100% availability . Operational simplicity for...
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eXtremeDB databases can be modeled relationally or as objects and can utilize SQL...
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Typical application scenarios

Internet of Things (IOT), fraud detection applications, recommendation engines, product...
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IoT application across all markets: Industrial Control, Netcom, Telecom, Defense,...
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Key customers

Apple, Netflix, Uber, ING,, Intuit,Fidelity, NY Times, Outbrain, BazaarVoice, Best...
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Schneider Electronics, F5 Networks, TNS, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, GoPro, ViaSat,...
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Market metrics

Cassandra is used by 40% of the Fortune 100.
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With hundreds of customers and over 30 million devices/applications using the product...
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Licensing and pricing models

Apache licenseÂ Pricing for commercial distributions provided by DataStax and available...
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