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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. BigObject vs. KairosDB vs. OpenSearch vs. Solr

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Name

Description

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

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Time Series DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Vector DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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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	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	0.62
Rank	#239	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	42.91
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Website

allegrograph.com

bigobject.io

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

solr.apache.org

Technical documentation

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

docs.bigobject.io

kairosdb.github.io

opensearch.org/docs/latest

solr.apache.org/resources.html

Developer

Franz Inc.

BigObject, Inc.

Amazon Web Services

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2004

2015

2013

2021

2006

Current release

8.0, December 2023

1.2.2, November 2018

2.5.0, January 2023

9.6.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

runs as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

Lua

yes

Java plugins

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

spark-solr: github.com/lucidworks/spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

none

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

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

simple password-based access control

yes

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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