DBMS > AllegroGraph vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. MariaDB vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. OrigoDB

System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. MariaDB vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. OrigoDB

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Name

Description

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

Cloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.

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.

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

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

Score	7.85
Rank	#51	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	93.21
Rank	#13	Overall
	#9	Relational DBMS

Score	77.99
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Website

allegrograph.com

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

mariadb.com

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org

Site of MariaDB Foundation

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

origodb.com

Technical documentation

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

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

origodb.com/docs

Developer

Franz Inc.

Google

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

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

Microsoft

Robert Friberg et al

Initial release

2004

2017

2009

Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995

2010

2009

under the name LiveDB

Current release

8.0, December 2023

11.3.2, February 2024

V12

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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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

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

hosted

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

schema-free

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python

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

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

Transact SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

Sharding

several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, with always 3 replicas available

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Using Cloud Dataflow

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

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

depending on model

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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

Write ahead log

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

with MEMORY storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role based authorization

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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