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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Datomic vs. Interbase vs. IRONdb vs. RocksDB

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

High performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMS

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.13
Rank	#179	Overall
	#30	Document stores
	#17	Graph DBMS
	#7	RDF stores
	#8	Vector DBMS

Score	1.66
Rank	#144	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

allegrograph.com

www.datomic.com

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

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

docs.datomic.com

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Franz Inc.

Cognitect

Embarcadero

Circonus LLC.

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2004

2012

1984

2017

2013

Current release

8.0, December 2023

1.0.7075, December 2023

InterBase 2020, December 2019

V0.10.20, January 2018

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

Clojure
Java

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

yes

Transaction Functions

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

yes, in Lua

Triggers

yes

By using transaction functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

none

Automatic, metric affinity per node

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Interbase Change Views

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

recommended only for testing and development

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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