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

System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Couchbase 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

A distributed document store with integrated cache, a powerful search engine, in-built operational and analytical capabilities, and an embedded mobile database

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

Document store

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Search engine

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Key-value store

originating from the former Membase product and supporting the Memcached protocol
Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Document store

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.06
Rank	#187	Overall
	#30	Document stores
	#17	Graph DBMS
	#7	RDF stores
	#7	Vector DBMS

Score	17.30
Rank	#36	Overall
	#5	Document 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

www.couchbase.com

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

manticoresearch.com

orientdb.org

Technical documentation

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

docs.couchbase.com

docs.intersystems.com

manual.manticoresearch.com

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

Developer

Franz Inc.

Couchbase, Inc.

InterSystems

Manticore Software

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Initial release

2004

2011

1997

2017

2010

Current release

8.0, December 2023

Server: 7.2, June 2023; Mobile: 3.1, March 2022; Couchbase Capella (DBaaS), June 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

Business Source License (BSL 1.1); Commercial licenses also available

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

Apache version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Go and Erlang

C++

Java

Server operating systems

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

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

SQL++, extends ANSI SQL to JSON for operational, transactional, and analytic use cases

yes

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language, no joins

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

CLI Client
HTTP REST
Kafka Connector
Native language bindings for CRUD, Query, Search and Analytics APIs
Spark Connector
Spring Data

.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

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
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

Functions and timers in JavaScript and UDFs in Java, Python, SQL++

yes

user defined functions

Java, Javascript

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

yes

Hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

Automatic Sharding

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

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

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

selectable on a per-operation basis

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

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

Ephemeral buckets

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

User and Administrator separation with password-based and LDAP integrated Authentication. Role-base access control.

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

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