DBMS > AllegroGraph vs. GeoMesa vs. MariaDB vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. Riak TS

System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. GeoMesa vs. MariaDB vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. Riak TS

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Name

Description

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

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.

Enhanced drop-in replacement for MySQL based on XtraDB or TokuDB storage engines with improved performance and additional diagnostic and management features.

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.13
Rank	#179	Overall
	#30	Document stores
	#17	Graph DBMS
	#7	RDF stores
	#7	Vector DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	91.04
Rank	#13	Overall
	#9	Relational DBMS

Score	2.10
Rank	#119	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#307	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Website

allegrograph.com

www.geomesa.org

mariadb.com

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org

Site of MariaDB Foundation

www.percona.com/software/mysql-database/percona-server

Technical documentation

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

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

www.percona.com/downloads/Percona-Server-LATEST

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

Developer

Franz Inc.

CCRi and others

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server)

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

Percona

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2004

2014

2009

Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995

2008

2015

Current release

8.0, December 2023

5.0.0, May 2024

11.3.2, February 2024

8.0.36-28, 2024

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Scala

C and C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

yes

schema-free

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

yes

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

depending on storage layer

several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

depending on storage layer

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
XtraDB Cluster

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

depending on storage layer

yes

with MEMORY storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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