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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Couchbase vs. ObjectBox vs. XTDB

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonCouchbase infoOriginally called Membase  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSA distributed document store with integrated cache, a powerful search engine, in-built operational and analytical capabilities, and an embedded mobile databaseExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Document storeObject oriented DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSKey-value store infooriginating from the former Membase product and supporting the Memcached protocol
Spatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extension
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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
Score17.30
Rank#36  Overall
#5  Document stores
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#343  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websiteallegrograph.comwww.couchbase.comobjectbox.iogithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmldocs.couchbase.comdocs.objectbox.iowww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperFranz Inc.Couchbase, Inc.ObjectBox LimitedJuxt Ltd.
Initial release2004201120172019
Current release8.0, December 2023Server: 7.2, June 2023; Mobile: 3.1, March 2022; Couchbase Capella (DBaaS), June 20231.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoBusiness Source License (BSL 1.1); Commercial licenses also availableOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC, C++, Go and ErlangC and C++Clojure
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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 possiblenono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languageSQL++, extends ANSI SQL to JSON for operational, transactional, and analytic use casesnolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
CLI Client
HTTP REST
Kafka Connector
Native language bindings for CRUD, Query, Search and Analytics APIs
Spark Connector
Spring Data
Proprietary native APIHTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common LispFunctions and timers in JavaScript and UDFs in Java, Python, SQL++nono
Triggersyesyes infovia the TAP protocolnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith FederationAutomatic Shardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication infoincluding cross data center replication
Source-replica replication
online/offline synchronization between client and serveryes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infoselectable on a per-operation basis
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoEphemeral bucketsno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationUser and Administrator separation with password-based and LDAP integrated Authentication. Role-base access control.yes
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AllegroGraphCouchbase infoOriginally called MembaseObjectBoxXTDB infoformerly named Crux
Specific characteristicsKnowledge Graph Platform Leader FedShard - Designed for Entity-Event Knowledge Graph...
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Competitive advantagesAllegroGraph is uniquely suited to support adhoc queries through SPARQL, Prolog and...
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