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DBMS > AllegroGraph vs. Cachelot.io vs. Kdb vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Qdrant

System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Cachelot.io vs. Kdb vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Qdrant

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Cosmos DB infoformer name was Azure DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSIn-memory caching systemHigh performance Time Series DBMSGlobally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database serviceA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Key-value storeTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Vector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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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
Score7.55
Rank#53  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score29.04
Rank#27  Overall
#4  Document stores
#2  Graph DBMS
#3  Key-value stores
#3  Wide column stores
Score1.16
Rank#175  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Websiteallegrograph.comcachelot.iokx.comazure.microsoft.com/­services/­cosmos-dbgithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmlcode.kx.comlearn.microsoft.com/­azure/­cosmos-dbqdrant.tech/­documentation
DeveloperFranz Inc.Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcMicrosoftQdrant
Initial release200420152000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 200320142021
Current release8.0, December 20233.6, May 2018
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoSimplified BSD Licensecommercial infofree 32-bit versioncommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageC++qRust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedDocker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes infoJSON typesNumbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean
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 possiblenoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yes infoAll properties auto-indexed by defaultyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languagenoSQL-like query language (q)SQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
Memcached protocolHTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
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
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common Lispnouser defined functionsJavaScript
Triggersyesnoyes infowith viewsJavaScript
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith Federationnonehorizontal partitioningSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneSource-replica replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceCollection-level replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingwith Hadoop integration infoIntegration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*no
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationnoneImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency
Eventual Consistency, tunable consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoMulti-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationnorights management via user accountsAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelKey-based authentication
More information provided by the system vendor
AllegroGraphCachelot.ioKdbMicrosoft Azure Cosmos DB infoformer name was Azure DocumentDBQdrant
Specific characteristicsKnowledge Graph Platform Leader FedShard - Designed for Entity-Event Knowledge Graph...
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Integrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantagesAllegroGraph is uniquely suited to support adhoc queries through SPARQL, Prolog and...
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provides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
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