DBMS > AllegroGraph vs. FeatureBase vs. Qdrant vs. Snowflake vs. Solr

System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. FeatureBase vs. Qdrant vs. Snowflake vs. Solr

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Name

Description

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

Real-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.

A high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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

Score	0.22
Rank	#309	Overall
	#139	Relational DBMS

Score	1.16
Rank	#175	Overall
	#6	Vector DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	42.91
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Website

allegrograph.com

www.featurebase.com

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

www.snowflake.com

solr.apache.org

Technical documentation

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

docs.featurebase.com

qdrant.tech/documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

solr.apache.org/resources.html

Developer

Franz Inc.

Molecula and Pilosa Open Source Contributors

Qdrant

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2004

2017

2021

2014

2006

Current release

8.0, December 2023

2022, May 2022

9.6.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Rust

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

runs as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic 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

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

Keywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

SQL queries

yes

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

gRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java
Python

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

user defined functions

Java plugins

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Collection-level replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

spark-solr: github.com/lucidworks/spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency, tunable consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using Linux fsync

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Key-based authentication

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

yes

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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