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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. OpenSearch vs. Sphinx vs. Tibero

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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

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Document store

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Vector DBMS

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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	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	5.98
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Score	1.78
Rank	#140	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Website

allegrograph.com

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

sphinxsearch.com

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

Technical documentation

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

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

opensearch.org/docs/latest

sphinxsearch.com/docs

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

Developer

Franz Inc.

Google

Amazon Web Services

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

TmaxSoft

Initial release

2004

2017

2021

2001

2003

Current release

8.0, December 2023

2.5.0, January 2023

3.5.1, February 2023

6, April 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C and Assembler

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

schema-free

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

yes

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

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

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

yes

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

Triggers

yes

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

yes

none

Multi-source replication
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

Eventual Consistency

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

planned for next version

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 (SQL 92, SQL 99)

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Specific characteristics

Knowledge Graph Platform Leader FedShard - Designed for Entity-Event Knowledge Graph...
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Competitive advantages

AllegroGraph is uniquely suited to support adhoc queries through SPARQL, Prolog and...
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Distributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

The OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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