DBMS > AllegroGraph vs. BigchainDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Tibero

System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. BigchainDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Tibero

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Name

Description

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

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Wide column store

Relational 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	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

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

Score	4.04
Rank	#77	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	1.59
Rank	#148	Overall
	#68	Relational DBMS

Website

allegrograph.com

www.bigchaindb.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

Technical documentation

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

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

Developer

Franz Inc.

Microsoft

TmaxSoft

Initial release

2004

2016

2014

2012

2003

Current release

8.0, December 2023

6, April 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

C and Assembler

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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

Secondary indexes

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

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

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

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

.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

JavaScript

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

optimistic locking

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

planned for next version

User concepts

Access control

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

yes

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

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