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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Cachelot.io vs. KairosDB vs. Oracle Berkeley DB

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Name

Description

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

In-memory caching system

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Widely used in-process key-value store

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Secondary database models

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	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Score	0.62
Rank	#239	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.21
Rank	#117	Overall
	#20	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Website

allegrograph.com

cachelot.io

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/berkeleydb.html

Technical documentation

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

kairosdb.github.io

docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/index.html

Developer

Franz Inc.

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Initial release

2004

2015

2013

1994

Current release

8.0, December 2023

1.2.2, November 2018

18.1.40, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

schema-free

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

yes

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

Memcached protocol

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

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

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

.Net

Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others

Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication

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

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

simple password-based access control

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Specific characteristics

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