DBMS > AllegroGraph vs. EDB Postgres vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. VictoriaMetrics vs. YugabyteDB

System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. EDB Postgres vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. VictoriaMetrics vs. YugabyteDB

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Name

Description

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

The EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

A fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution

High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Wide column store

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Trend Chart

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

Score	1.91
Rank	#130	Overall
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	1.23
Rank	#172	Overall
	#15	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.63
Rank	#109	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

allegrograph.com

www.enterprisedb.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

victoriametrics.com

www.yugabyte.com

Technical documentation

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

www.enterprisedb.com/docs

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

docs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/wiki

docs.yugabyte.com
github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db

Developer

Franz Inc.

EnterpriseDB

Microsoft

VictoriaMetrics

Yugabyte Inc.

Initial release

2004

2005

2014

2018

2017

Current release

8.0, December 2023

14, December 2021

v1.91, May 2023

2.19, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

BSD for PostgreSQL-components

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

yes

schema-free

depending on used data model

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

Secondary indexes

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language

yes, PostgreSQL compatible

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write

JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

JavaScript

yes

sql, plpgsql, C

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

horizontal partitioning

by hash, list or range

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Hash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Synchronous replication

Based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

Distributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

based on RocksDB

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

yes

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

Apache 2.0 license for the database
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