DBMS > AllegroGraph vs. BaseX vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Transwarp StellarDB

System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. BaseX vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Transwarp StellarDB

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Name

Description

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

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

A distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Native XML DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.13
Rank	#179	Overall
	#30	Document stores
	#17	Graph DBMS
	#7	RDF stores
	#7	Vector DBMS

Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#371	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

Website

allegrograph.com

basex.org

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/stellardb

Technical documentation

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

docs.basex.org

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

Developer

Franz Inc.

BaseX GmbH

Microsoft

Transwarp

Initial release

2004

2007

2014

Current release

8.0, December 2023

10.7, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XQuery supports types

yes

JSON types

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

Secondary indexes

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

OpenCypher

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via events

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

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.

User concepts

Access control

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

yes

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