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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Axibase vs. Couchbase vs. MaxDB vs. Memcached

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonCouchbase infoOriginally called Membase  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationA distributed document store with integrated cache, a powerful search engine, in-built operational and analytical capabilities, and an embedded mobile databaseA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSKey-value store infooriginating from the former Membase product and supporting the Memcached protocol
Spatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extension
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.13
Rank#179  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#7  Vector DBMS
Score0.35
Rank#282  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score16.59
Rank#36  Overall
#5  Document stores
Score2.26
Rank#114  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score18.08
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Websiteallegrograph.comaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financewww.couchbase.commaxdb.sap.comwww.memcached.org
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmldocs.couchbase.commaxdb.sap.com/­documentationgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wiki
DeveloperFranz Inc.Axibase CorporationCouchbase, Inc.SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997Danga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal
Initial release20042013201119842003
Current release8.0, December 202315585Server: 7.2, June 2023; Mobile: 3.1, March 2022; Couchbase Capella (DBaaS), June 20237.9.10.12, February 20241.6.27, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source infoBusiness Source License (BSL 1.1); Commercial licenses also availablecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoBSD license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC, C++, Go and ErlangC++C
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesyesno
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 possiblenono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languageSQL-like query languageSQL++, extends ANSI SQL to JSON for operational, transactional, and analytic use casesyesno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
CLI Client
HTTP REST
Kafka Connector
Native language bindings for CRUD, Query, Search and Analytics APIs
Spark Connector
Spring Data
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common LispyesFunctions and timers in JavaScript and UDFs in Java, Python, SQL++yesno
Triggersyesyesyes infovia the TAP protocolyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith FederationShardingAutomatic Shardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationMulti-source replication infoincluding cross data center replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infoselectable on a per-operation basis
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesno
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoEphemeral bucketsno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationUser and Administrator separation with password-based and LDAP integrated Authentication. Role-base access control.fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol
More information provided by the system vendor
AllegroGraphAxibaseCouchbase infoOriginally called MembaseMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-DMemcached
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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