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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Axibase vs. DataFS vs. Sphinx

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonDataFS  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationAll data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMSObject oriented DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSGraph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.06
Rank#187  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#7  Vector DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#292  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#354  Overall
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websiteallegrograph.comaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financenewdatabase.comsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmldev.mobiland.com/­Overview.xspsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperFranz Inc.Axibase CorporationMobiland AGSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release2004201320182001
Current release8.0, December 2023155851.1.263, October 20223.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidcommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxWindowsFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasyesClasses, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesno
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 indexesyesnonoyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languageSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common Lispyesno
Triggersyesyesno, except callback-events from server when changes happenedno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith FederationShardingProprietary Sharding systemSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationWindows-Profileno
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AllegroGraphAxibaseDataFSSphinx
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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