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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Firebird vs. ITTIA vs. Netezza vs. Titan

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonITTIA  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
DescriptionHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseEdge Time Series DBMS with Real-Time Stream ProcessingData warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystemsTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
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
#8  Vector DBMS
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.44
Rank#267  Overall
#23  Time Series DBMS
Score8.59
Rank#45  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Websiteallegrograph.comwww.firebirdsql.orgwww.ittia.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­netezzagithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmlwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperFranz Inc.Firebird FoundationITTIA L.L.C.IBMAurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release20042000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase200720002012
Current release8.0, December 20235.0.0, January 20248.7
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C and C++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux infoincluded in applianceLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasyesFixed schemayesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesFloat/Blob/Integer/String/Unicode/Date/Time/Timestamp/Intervalyesyes
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 possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languageyesyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common LispPSQLyesyesyes
Triggersyesyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith FederationnoneShardingyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationyesSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnoyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDyesACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptDatabase file passwordsUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server
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AllegroGraphFirebirdITTIANetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBMTitan
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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