DBMS > AllegroGraph vs. etcd vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. OpenSearch vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. etcd vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. OpenSearch vs. Riak KV

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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.

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Vector DBMS

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

Score	7.03
Rank	#54	Overall
	#5	Key-value stores

Score	7.36
Rank	#53	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	4.01
Rank	#79	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Website

allegrograph.com

etcd.io
github.com/etcd-io/etcd

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

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

etcd.io/docs
github.com/etcd-io/etcd/tree/master/Documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

opensearch.org/docs/latest

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

Developer

Franz Inc.

Google

Amazon Web Services

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2004

2017

2021

2009

Current release

8.0, December 2023

3.4, August 2019

2.5.0, January 2023

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
Windows

experimental

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

gRPC
JSON over HTTP

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

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

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, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

yes

Erlang

Triggers

yes

yes, watching key changes

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

Multi-source replication

yes

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Using Cloud Dataflow

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

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.

yes, using Riak Security

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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