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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Datomic vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. OpenSearch vs. OrientDB

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Name

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

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	5.59
Rank	#63	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	3.19
Rank	#93	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#7	Graph DBMS
	#14	Key-value stores

Website

allegrograph.com

www.datomic.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

orientdb.org

Technical documentation

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

docs.datomic.com

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

opensearch.org/docs/latest

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

Developer

Franz Inc.

Cognitect

Microsoft

Amazon Web Services

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Initial release

2004

2012

2015

2021

2010

Current release

8.0, December 2023

1.0.6735, June 2023

2.5.0, January 2023

3.2.29, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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

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

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language, no joins

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

Clojure
Java

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

yes

Transaction Functions

yes

Java, Javascript

Triggers

yes

By using transaction functions

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

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

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

User concepts

Access control

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

yes

using Azure authentication

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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