DBMS > AllegroGraph vs. FileMaker vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. FileMaker vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

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

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

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

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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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	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

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

Score	1.97
Rank	#129	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	1.36
Rank	#161	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

allegrograph.com

www.claris.com/filemaker

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

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

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Franz Inc.

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Microsoft

Oracle

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2004

1983

2014

2007

1998

Current release

8.0, December 2023

19.4.1, November 2021

14.1, August 2023

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

yes

schema-free

yes

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

A http query request can return the data in XML format

Secondary indexes

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

via plugins

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

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

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

PHP

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

.Net
C++
Java

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

yes

JavaScript

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes, with selectable consistency level

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

configurable

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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