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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Cassandra vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Raima Database Manager vs. TigerGraph

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonCassandra  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonRaima Database Manager infoformerly named db_Vista  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 accessA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesRDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into an application or used as a database serverA 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 storeDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSVector DBMS infostarting with release V5
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.06
Rank#187  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#7  Vector DBMS
Score101.89
Rank#12  Overall
#1  Wide column stores
Score2.95
Rank#100  Overall
#17  Document stores
#17  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#259  Overall
#120  Relational DBMS
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score1.83
Rank#139  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websiteallegrograph.comcassandra.apache.orgwww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlraima.comwww.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmlcassandra.apache.org/­doc/­latestdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmldocs.raima.comdocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperFranz Inc.Apache Software Foundation infoApache top level project, originally developped by FacebookOracleRaima Inc.
Initial release20042008201119842017
Current release8.0, December 20234.1.3, July 202323.3, December 202315, June 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaCC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86
Android
HP-UX
Integrity RTOS
iOS
Linux
OS X
QNX
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasschema-freeSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.yesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesoptionalyesyes
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 infoExporting/Importing of XML structures possibleno
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)SQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesSQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
Proprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
GSQL (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#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Objective-C
PL/SQL
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common Lispnonoyes infobased on the ANSI/ISO SQL Persistent Stored Modules (PSM) specificationyes
Triggersyesyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith FederationSharding infono "single point of failure"Shardinghorizontal 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 possibleElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featureSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyeswith Hadoop integrationnoyes
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 infodepending on configuration
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)ACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
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.nonoyes infooff heap cacheyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationAccess rights for users can be defined per objectAccess rights for users and rolesnoRole-based access control
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AllegroGraphCassandraOracle NoSQLRaima Database Manager infoformerly named db_VistaTigerGraph
Specific characteristicsKnowledge Graph Platform Leader FedShard - Designed for Entity-Event Knowledge Graph...
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Apache Cassandra is the leading NoSQL, distributed database management system, well...
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Raima Database Manager (RDM) is an embedded time-series database optimized to run...
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Competitive advantagesAllegroGraph is uniquely suited to support adhoc queries through SPARQL, Prolog and...
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No single point of failure ensures 100% availability . Operational simplicity for...
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Decreased time-to-market Industry-standard interfaces & tools for making your job...
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Typical application scenariosInternet of Things (IOT), fraud detection applications, recommendation engines, product...
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Typical use cases include: Internet of Things (IoT) Embedded In-Memory Database Time-Series...
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Key customersApple, Netflix, Uber, ING,, Intuit,Fidelity, NY Times, Outbrain, BazaarVoice, Best...
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Infor, ABB, The Boeing Company, BAE Systems, Dow Jones, Dun & Bradstreet, Fujitsu,...
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Market metricsCassandra is used by 40% of the Fortune 100.
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Over 30 000 applications developers worldwide have field-tested RDM products More...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache license  Pricing for commercial distributions provided by DataStax and available...
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Just as the technical aspects of Raima Database Manager are flexible, so are the...
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