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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. FileMaker vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. IBM Cloudant vs. STSdb

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument storeDocument storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.06
Rank#187  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#7  Vector DBMS
Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websiteallegrograph.comwww.claris.com/­filemakerfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmlwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasecloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
DeveloperFranz Inc.Claris infoa subsidiary of AppleGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014STS Soft SC
Initial release20041983201220102011
Current release8.0, December 202319.4.1, November 20214.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageErlangC#
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
iOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedhostedWindows
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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 possibleyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languageyes infovia pluginsnonono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
PHPJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common Lispyeslimited functionality with using 'rules'View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptno
TriggersyesyesCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith FederationnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoyesno infoatomic operations within a document possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
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 authenticationsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesyes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseno
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AllegroGraphFileMakerFirebase Realtime DatabaseIBM CloudantSTSdb
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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