DBMS > AllegroGraph vs. Firebird vs. InterSystems Caché vs. NebulaGraph vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Firebird vs. InterSystems Caché vs. NebulaGraph vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBase

A multi-model DBMS and application server

A distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMS

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	2.14
Rank	#120	Overall
	#10	Graph DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

allegrograph.com

www.firebirdsql.org

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

github.com/vesoft-inc/nebula
www.nebula-graph.io

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

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

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

docs.intersystems.com

docs.nebula-graph.io

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Franz Inc.

Firebird Foundation

InterSystems

Vesoft Inc.

SAP

Initial release

2004

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

1997

2019

2010

Current release

8.0, December 2023

5.0.0, January 2024

2018.1.4, May 2020

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

yes

depending on used data model

Strong typed schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

Secondary indexes

yes

Nebula Graph internally uses the Key-Value store RocksDB for persistency. The vertices, edges, and their properties are stored as Key while their values are stored as Value. The primary indexes are per Key and secondary indexes are per Value.

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Browser interface
console (shell)
Cypher Query Language
GO Object Graph Mapper
Java Object Graph Mapper
NGBatis

ORM framework for NebulaGraph and Spring-Boot
Proprietary native API
Python Object Graph Mapper
Query language nGQL

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Java

.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

PSQL

yes

user defined functions

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

none

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Features a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writers

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Role-based access control

yes

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