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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Cachelot.io vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Ignite vs. OrientDB

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSIn-memory caching systemDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBApache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Key-value storeDocument storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score1.06
Rank#187  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#7  Vector DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score3.16
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score3.19
Rank#93  Overall
#16  Document stores
#7  Graph DBMS
#14  Key-value stores
Websiteallegrograph.comcachelot.iowww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantignite.apache.orgorientdb.org
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmlcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantapacheignite.readme.io/­docswww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.html
DeveloperFranz Inc.IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Apache Software FoundationOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP
Initial release20042015201020152010
Current release8.0, December 2023Apache Ignite 2.63.2.29, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoSimplified BSD LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++ErlangC++, Java, .NetJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
hostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonoyesyes
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 possiblenonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languagenonoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLSQL-like query language, no joins
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
Memcached protocolRESTful HTTP/JSON APIHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common LispnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)Java, Javascript
Triggersyesnoyesyes (cache interceptors and events)Hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith FederationnoneShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes (replicated cache)Multi-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)no infocould be achieved with distributed queries
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes inforelationship in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationnoAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurable
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AllegroGraphCachelot.ioIBM CloudantIgniteOrientDB
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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