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DBMS > AllegroGraph vs. FoundationDB vs. Microsoft Access vs. Newts vs. SiriDB

System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. FoundationDB vs. Microsoft Access vs. Newts vs. SiriDB

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.
DescriptionHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.Microsoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)Time Series DBMS based on CassandraOpen Source Time Series DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Document store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.84
Rank#204  Overall
#35  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#10  Vector DBMS
Score0.97
Rank#191  Overall
#32  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#87  Relational DBMS
Score93.76
Rank#12  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Websiteallegrograph.comgithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessopennms.github.io/­newtssiridb.com
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmlapple.github.io/­foundationdbdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikidocs.siridb.com
DeveloperFranz Inc.FoundationDBMicrosoftOpenNMS GroupCesbit
Initial release20042013199220142017
Current release8.0, December 20236.2.28, November 20201902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++JavaC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno infosome layers support typingyesyesyes infoNumeric data
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 possiblenono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languagesupported in specific SQL layer onlyyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardnono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP REST
Java API
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
JavaC
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common Lispin SQL-layer onlyyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenono
Triggersyesnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith FederationShardingnoneSharding infobased on CassandraSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesnoneselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationLinearizable consistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoin SQL-layer onlyyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID infobut no files for transaction loggingnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationnono infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003nosimple rights management via user accounts
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