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DBMS > AllegroGraph vs. Apache Cassandra vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Apache Cassandra vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. TigerGraph

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonApache Cassandra  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGE  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSWide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB infoOptimized for write accessFairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environmentsSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Wide column storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Search engineGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSVector DBMS infostarting with release V5Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.84
Rank#204  Overall
#35  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#10  Vector DBMS
Score98.94
Rank#11  Overall
#1  Wide column stores
Score0.02
Rank#370  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
#157  Relational DBMS
Score5.75
Rank#58  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score1.44
Rank#152  Overall
#14  Graph DBMS
Websiteallegrograph.comcassandra.apache.orgwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edgeazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchwww.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmlcassandra.apache.org/­doc/­latestdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.htmllearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchdocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperFranz Inc.Apache Software Foundation infoApache top level project, originally developped by FacebookFairCom CorporationMicrosoft
Initial release20042008197920152017
Current release8.0, December 20235.0-rc1, July 2024V3, October 2020V1
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoApache version 2commercial infoRestricted, free version availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaANSI C, C++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Android
Linux infoARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows
hostedLinux
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyesyes
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 possiblenoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesrestricted infoonly equality queries, not always the best performing solutionyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languageSQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)yes infoANSI SQL queriesnoSQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
Proprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift
ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIGSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common Lispnoyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++noyes
Triggersyesyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith FederationSharding infono "single point of failure"File partitioning infoCustomizable business rules for partitioningSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleyes infoSynchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logsyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infowhen using SQLnoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoacross SQL and NoSQLyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationAccess rights for users can be defined per objectFine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.yes infousing Azure authenticationRole-based access control
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AllegroGraphApache CassandraFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGEMicrosoft Azure AI SearchTigerGraph
Specific characteristicsApache Cassandra is the leading NoSQL, distributed database management system, well...
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Competitive advantagesNo single point of failure ensures 100% availability . Operational simplicity for...
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Typical application scenariosInternet of Things (IOT), fraud detection applications, recommendation engines, product...
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Key customersApple, Netflix, Uber, ING,, Intuit,Fidelity, NY Times, Outbrain, BazaarVoice, Best...
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Market metricsApache Cassandra is used by 40% of the Fortune 100.
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache license  Pricing for commercial distributions provided by DataStax and available...
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