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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Cachelot.io vs. ClickHouse vs. EventStoreDB vs. NuoDB

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Name

Description

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

In-memory caching system

A high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.06
Rank	#187	Overall
	#30	Document stores
	#17	Graph DBMS
	#7	RDF stores
	#7	Vector DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Score	16.34
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	1.10
Rank	#179	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	0.89
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Website

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

Technical documentation

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

clickhouse.com/docs

developers.eventstore.com

doc.nuodb.com

Developer

Franz Inc.

Clickhouse Inc.

Event Store Limited

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Initial release

2004

2015

2016

2012

2013

Current release

8.0, December 2023

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

21.2, February 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux
Windows

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

Memcached protocol

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

3rd party library
C++
Elixir

3rd party library
Go

3rd party library
Java

3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party library
Kotlin

3rd party library
Nim

3rd party library
Perl

3rd party library
PHP

3rd party library
Python

3rd party library
R

3rd party library
Ruby

3rd party library
Rust
Scala

3rd party library

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

yes

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

none

key based and custom

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

Asynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

tunable commit protocol

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

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

Temporary table

User concepts

Access control

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

Access rights for users and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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