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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Coveo vs. Sphinx vs. TerarkDB vs. TigerGraph

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonCoveo  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSAI-powered hosted search, recommendation and personalization platform providing tools for both low-code and full-code developmentOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDBA 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
Search engineSearch engineKey-value storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.13
Rank#179  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#7  Vector DBMS
Score2.11
Rank#118  Overall
#11  Search engines
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Score1.80
Rank#138  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websiteallegrograph.comwww.coveo.comsphinxsearch.comgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdbwww.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmldocs.coveo.comsphinxsearch.com/­docsbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKcdocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperFranz Inc.CoveoSphinx Technologies Inc.ByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release20042012200120162017
Current release8.0, December 20233.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercial inforestricted open source version availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++C++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemashybrid - fields need to be configured prior to indexing, but relationships can be exploited at query time without pre-configurationyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnonoyes
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 indexesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languagenoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)noSQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
RESTful HTTP APIProprietary protocolC++ API
Java API
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C++
Java
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common Lispnononoyes
Triggersyesyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith FederationyesSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationgranular access controls, API key management, content filtersnonoRole-based access control
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AllegroGraphCoveoSphinxTerarkDBTigerGraph
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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