DB-EnginesextremeDB - solve IoT connectivity disruptionsEnglish
Deutsch
Knowledge Base of Relational and NoSQL Database Management Systemsprovided by Redgate Software

DBMS > AllegroGraph vs. Apache Cassandra vs. FatDB vs. LMDB vs. SingleStore

System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Apache Cassandra vs. FatDB vs. LMDB vs. SingleStore

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines
NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonApache Cassandra  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonLMDB  Xexclude from comparisonSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.
DescriptionHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSWide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB infoOptimized for write accessA .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.A high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database libraryMySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Wide column storeDocument store
Key-value store
Key-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSVector DBMS infostarting with release V5Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector 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
Score1.94
Rank#120  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
Score4.02
Rank#74  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Websiteallegrograph.comcassandra.apache.orgwww.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdbwww.singlestore.com
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmlcassandra.apache.org/­doc/­latestwww.lmdb.tech/­docdocs.singlestore.com
DeveloperFranz Inc.Apache Software Foundation infoApache top level project, originally developped by FacebookFatCloudSymasSingleStore Inc.
Initial release20042008201220112013
Current release8.0, December 20235.0-rc1, July 20240.9.32, January 20248.5, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Sourcecommercial infofree developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.
Astra DB: Multi-cloud DBaaS built on Apache Cassandra.
Implementation languageJavaC#CC++, Go
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
WindowsLinux
Unix
Windows
Linux info64 bit version required
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 possiblenonono
Secondary indexesyesrestricted infoonly equality queries, not always the best performing solutionyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languageSQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)no infoVia inetgration in SQL Servernoyes infobut no triggers and foreign keys
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
Proprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift
.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
Cluster Management API infoas HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC
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#.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl
Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common Lispnoyes infovia applicationsnoyes
Triggersyesyesyes infovia applicationsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith FederationSharding infono "single point of failure"ShardingnoneSharding infohash partitioning
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 possibleselectable replication factornoneSource-replica replication infostores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesnono infocan define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations
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
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoAll updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.
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 authenticationAccess rights for users can be defined per objectno infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsnoFine grained access control via users, groups and roles
More information provided by the system vendor
AllegroGraphApache CassandraFatDBLMDBSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL
Specific characteristicsApache Cassandra is the leading NoSQL, distributed database management system, well...
» more
Competitive advantagesNo single point of failure ensures 100% availability . Operational simplicity for...
» more
Typical application scenariosInternet of Things (IOT), fraud detection applications, recommendation engines, product...
» more
Key customersApple, Netflix, Uber, ING,, Intuit,Fidelity, NY Times, Outbrain, BazaarVoice, Best...
» more
Market metricsApache Cassandra is used by 40% of the Fortune 100.
» more
Licensing and pricing modelsApache license  Pricing for commercial distributions provided by DataStax and available...
» more
News

AllegroGraph Named a 2024 Trend Setting Product
16 September 2024

Gartner recognized Franz Inc. as a Key Neuro-Symbolic AI Provider in 2024 Hype Cycle for AI
10 September 2024

Next-Generation Cybersecurity: Integrating Knowledge Graphs and Neuro-Symbolic AI with STIX and TAXII
10 September 2024

Pruning Cycles in UMLS Metathesaurus: A Neuro Symbolic AI Approach
9 September 2024

Awesome AI Companies – Franz Inc.
17 July 2024

How to Build a Notion Clone with Astra DB and Mongoose
20 September 2024

How to Monitor DataStax-Powered RAG Applications with Fiddler
19 September 2024

How Knowledge Graph RAG Boosts LLM Results
18 September 2024

How to Chunk Text in JavaScript for Your RAG Application
18 September 2024

Precision and Efficiency in Domain-Specific Text2SQL Conversion: Introducing Skypoint AI Platform’s SherloQ
11 September 2024

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services
3rd partiesCassandra Forward event: Want to level up your Cassandra game? Watch now replays of the March 2023 sessions.
» more

CData: Connect to Big Data & NoSQL through standard Drivers.
» more

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources
AllegroGraphApache CassandraFatDBLMDBSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL
DB-Engines blog posts

Turbocharge Your Application Development Using WebAssembly With SingleStoreDB
17 October 2022,  Akmal Chaudhri, SingleStore (sponsor) 

Cloud-Based Analytics With SingleStoreDB
9 June 2022,  Akmal Chaudhri, SingleStore (sponsor) 

SingleStore: The Increasing Momentum of Multi-Model Database Systems
14 February 2022,  Akmal Chaudhri, SingleStore (sponsor) 

show all

Recent citations in the news

Build your own chatbot and talk to your own documents
4 June 2024, Data Science Central

Neuro-Symbolic AI: The Peak of Artificial Intelligence
16 November 2021, AiThority

Q&A: Can Neuro-Symbolic AI Solve AI’s Weaknesses?
8 April 2024, TDWI

Franz Releases the First Neuro-Symbolic AI Platform Merging Knowledge Graphs, Generative AI, and Vector Storage
11 December 2023, Datanami

Fuse Graph Neural Networks with Semantic Reasoning to Produce Complimentary Predictions
21 September 2021, Towards Data Science

provided by Google News

New Apache Cassandra 5.0 gives open source NoSQL database a scalability and performance boost
6 September 2024, VentureBeat

Apache Cassandra introduces version 5.0 of open-source NoSQL database
9 September 2024, Techzine Europe

Migrate Cassandra workloads to Amazon Keyspaces using CQLReplicator
4 September 2024, AWS Blog

Cassandra redesigns indexing, storage management for 5.0 release
10 September 2024, The Register

How Uber ensures Apache Cassandra®’s tolerance for single-zone failure
20 June 2024, Uber

provided by Google News

Threat Actors Exploit Multiple Vulnerabilities in Ivanti Connect Secure and Policy Secure Gateways
29 February 2024, CISA

The Lightning Memory-mapped Database
2 March 2016, InfoQ.com

Akamai launches managed database service
25 April 2022, Blocks & Files

HarperDB - How and Why We Built It From The Ground Up on NodeJS
28 February 2021, hackernoon.com

The Tom Brady Data Biography
8 September 2023, StatsBomb

provided by Google News

SingleStore Partners With Snowflake to Help Users Build Faster, More Efficient Real Time AI Applications
19 September 2024, Business Wire

Third time was the charm for SingleStore in the cloud, CEO says
8 July 2024, The Register

Achieve near real-time analytics on Amazon DynamoDB with SingleStore
16 September 2024, AWS Blog

SingleStore CEO sees little future for purpose-built vector databases
24 January 2024, VentureBeat

Building a Modern Database: Nikita Shamgunov on Postgres and Beyond
18 April 2024, Madrona Venture Group

provided by Google News



Share this page

Featured Products

SingleStore logo

The data platform to build your intelligent applications.
Try it free.

Milvus logo

Vector database designed for GenAI, fully equipped for enterprise implementation.
Try Managed Milvus for Free

RaimaDB logo

RaimaDB, embedded database for mission-critical applications. When performance, footprint and reliability matters.
Try RaimaDB for free.

Datastax Astra logo

Bring all your data to Generative AI applications with vector search enabled by the most scalable
vector database available.
Try for Free

Neo4j logo

See for yourself how a graph database can make your life easier.
Use Neo4j online for free.

Present your product here