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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Firebird vs. openGauss vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. TerarkDB

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonopenGauss  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by HuaweiA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score1.06
Rank#187  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#7  Vector DBMS
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#183  Overall
#84  Relational DBMS
Score2.95
Rank#100  Overall
#17  Document stores
#17  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websiteallegrograph.comwww.firebirdsql.orggitee.com/­opengauss
opengauss.org
www.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmlwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.opengauss.org/­en
gitee.com/­opengauss/­docs
docs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmlbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperFranz Inc.Firebird FoundationHuawei and openGauss communityOracleByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release20042000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase201920112016
Current release8.0, December 20235.0.0, January 20243.0, March 202223.3, December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen SourceOpen Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)commercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C, C++, JavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
LinuxLinux
Solaris SPARC/x86
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasyesyesSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.schema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesoptionalno
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 possiblenonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languageyesANSI SQL 2011SQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIC++ API
Java API
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++
Java
C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common LispPSQLyesnono
Triggersyesyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith Federationnonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)Shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationSource-replica replicationElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featurenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)no
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyes
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.nonoyes infooff heap cacheyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and rolesno
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AllegroGraphFirebirdopenGaussOracle NoSQLTerarkDB
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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