DBMS > AllegroGraph vs. Cassandra vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. FoundationDB vs. TypeDB
System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Cassandra vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. FoundationDB vs. TypeDB
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Name | AllegroGraph Xexclude from comparison | Cassandra Xexclude from comparison | Datastax Enterprise Xexclude from comparison | FoundationDB Xexclude from comparison | TypeDB formerly named Grakn Xexclude from comparison | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Description | High performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMS | Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB Optimized for write access | DataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the always-on, scalable data platform built on Apache Cassandra and designed for hybrid Cloud. DSE integrates graph, search, analytics, administration, developer tooling, and monitoring into a unified platform. | Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers. | TypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Primary database model | Document store with version 6.5 Graph DBMS RDF store Vector DBMS | Wide column store | Wide column store | Document store supported via specific layer Key-value store Relational DBMS supported via specific SQL-layer | Graph DBMS Relational DBMS Often described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Secondary database models | Spatial DBMS | Vector DBMS starting with release V5 | Document store Graph DBMS Spatial DBMS Search engine Vector DBMS | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Website | allegrograph.com | cassandra.apache.org | www.datastax.com/products/datastax-enterprise | github.com/apple/foundationdb | typedb.com | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Technical documentation | franz.com/agraph/support/documentation/current/agraph-introduction.html | cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest | docs.datastax.com | apple.github.io/foundationdb | typedb.com/docs | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Developer | Franz Inc. | Apache Software Foundation Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook | DataStax | FoundationDB | Vaticle | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Initial release | 2004 | 2008 | 2011 | 2013 | 2016 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Current release | 8.0, December 2023 | 4.1.3, July 2023 | 6.8, April 2020 | 6.2.28, November 2020 | 2.26.3, January 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
License Commercial or Open Source | commercial Limited community edition free | Open Source Apache version 2 | commercial | Open Source Apache 2.0 | Open Source GPL Version 3, commercial licenses available | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service | no | no | no | no | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Implementation language | Java | Java | C++ | Java | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Server operating systems | Linux OS X Windows | BSD Linux OS X Windows | Linux OS X | Linux OS X Windows | Linux OS X Windows | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Data scheme | yes RDF schemas | schema-free | schema-free | schema-free some layers support schemas | yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Typing predefined data types such as float or date | yes | yes | yes | no some layers support typing | 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. | no bulk load of XML files possible | no | no | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Secondary indexes | yes | restricted only equality queries, not always the best performing solution | yes | no | yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
SQL Support of SQL | SPARQL is used as query language | SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL) | SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQL | supported in specific SQL layer only | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
APIs and other access methods | RESTful HTTP API SPARQL | Proprietary protocol CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language) Thrift | Proprietary protocol CQL (Cassandra Query Language) TinkerPop Gremlin with DSE Graph | gRPC protocol TypeDB Console (shell) TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Supported programming languages | C# Clojure Java Lisp Perl Python Ruby Scala | C# C++ Clojure Erlang Go Haskell Java JavaScript Node.js Perl PHP Python Ruby Scala | C C# C++ Java JavaScript (Node.js) PHP Python Ruby | .Net C C++ Go Java JavaScript Node.js PHP Python Ruby Swift | All JVM based languages Groovy Java JavaScript (Node.js) Python Scala | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Server-side scripts Stored procedures | yes JavaScript or Common Lisp | no | no | in SQL-layer only | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Triggers | yes | yes | yes | no | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes | with Federation | Sharding no "single point of failure" | Sharding no "single point of failure" | Sharding | Sharding by using Cassandra | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes | Multi-source replication Source-replica replication | selectable replication factor Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible | configurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computing | yes | Multi-source replication by using Cassandra | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods | no | yes | yes | no | yes by using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system | Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration | Eventual Consistency Immediate Consistency can be individually decided for each write operation | Immediate Consistency Tunable Consistency consistency level can be individually decided with each write operation | Linearizable consistency | Immediate Consistency | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Foreign keys Referential integrity | no | no | no | in SQL-layer only | no substituted by the relationship feature | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data | ACID | no Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations | no Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations | ACID | ACID | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Durability Support for making data persistent | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only. | no | no | yes | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
User concepts Access control | Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication | Access rights for users can be defined per object | Access rights for users can be defined per object | no | yes at REST API level; other APIs in progress | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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AllegroGraph | Cassandra | Datastax Enterprise | FoundationDB | TypeDB formerly named Grakn | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Specific characteristics | Knowledge Graph Platform Leader FedShard - Designed for Entity-Event Knowledge Graph... » more | Apache Cassandra is the leading NoSQL, distributed database management system, well... » more | DataStax Enterprise is scale-out data infrastructure for enterprises that need to... » more | TypeDB is a polymorphic database with a conceptual data model, a strong subtyping... » more | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Competitive advantages | AllegroGraph is uniquely suited to support adhoc queries through SPARQL, Prolog and... » more | No single point of failure ensures 100% availability . Operational simplicity for... » more | Supporting the following application requirements: Zero downtime - Built on Apache... » more | TypeDB provides a new level of expressivity, extensibility, interoperability, and... » more | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Typical application scenarios | Internet of Things (IOT), fraud detection applications, recommendation engines, product... » more | Applications that must be massively and linearly scalable with 100% uptime and able... » more | Life sciences : TypeDB makes working with biological data much easier and accelerates... » more | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Key customers | Apple, Netflix, Uber, ING,, Intuit,Fidelity, NY Times, Outbrain, BazaarVoice, Best... » more | Capital One, Cisco, Comcast, eBay, McDonald's, Microsoft, Safeway, Sony, UBS, and... » more | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Market metrics | Cassandra is used by 40% of the Fortune 100. » more | Among the Forbes 100 Most Innovative Companies, DataStax is trusted by 5 of the top... » more | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Licensing and pricing models | Apache license Pricing for commercial distributions provided by DataStax and available... » more | Annual subscription » more | Apache f or language drivers, and AGPL and Commercial for the database server. The... » more | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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