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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. EJDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. Rockset vs. Sphinx

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Name

Description

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

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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

Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	5.95
Rank	#55	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

allegrograph.com

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

cloud.google.com/bigquery

rockset.com

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

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

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.rockset.com

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Franz Inc.

Softmotions

Google

Rockset

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2004

2012

2010

2019

2001

Current release

8.0, December 2023

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

yes

dynamic typing

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

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

in-process shared library

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

none

Automatic sharding

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

yes

none

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

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

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

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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