DBMS > AllegroGraph vs. Cassandra vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Manticore Search vs. OrientDB

System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Cassandra vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Manticore Search vs. OrientDB

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Name

Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines 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

A multi-model DBMS and application server

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Wide column store

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Search engine

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Document store

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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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	101.89
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	3.19
Rank	#93	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#7	Graph DBMS
	#14	Key-value stores

Website

allegrograph.com

cassandra.apache.org

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

manticoresearch.com

orientdb.org

Technical documentation

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

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

docs.intersystems.com

manual.manticoresearch.com

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

Developer

Franz Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

InterSystems

Manticore Software

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Initial release

2004

2008

1997

2017

2010

Current release

8.0, December 2023

4.1.3, July 2023

2018.1.4, May 2020

6.0, February 2023

3.2.29, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

Apache version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

schema-free

depending on used data model

Fixed schema

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

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

Can index from XML

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

yes

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language, no joins

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

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++
Java

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

yes

user defined functions

Java, Javascript

Triggers

yes

Hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Sharding

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

Source-replica replication

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

could be achieved with distributed queries

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

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

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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