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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. EJDB vs. Immudb vs. Rockset vs. Sphinx

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonImmudb  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)An open source immutable (append-only) database with cryptographic verification which makes it tamper-resistant and fully auditable.A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Document storeKey-value storeDocument storeSearch engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Search engine
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
Score0.31
Rank#296  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score0.31
Rank#295  Overall
#42  Key-value stores
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websiteallegrograph.comgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbgithub.com/­codenotary/­immudb
immudb.io
rockset.comsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmlgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mddocs.immudb.iodocs.rockset.comsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperFranz Inc.SoftmotionsCodenotaryRocksetSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20042012202020192001
Current release8.0, December 20231.2.3, April 20223.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageCGoC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
server-lessBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
hostedFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_iddynamic typingno
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 possiblenono infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesyesnoyesall fields are automatically indexedyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languagenoSQL-like syntaxRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
in-process shared librarygRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol
HTTP RESTProprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common Lispnononono
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith FederationnoneShardingAutomatic shardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblenonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationnoAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consoleno
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AllegroGraphEJDBImmudbRocksetSphinx
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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