DBMS > AllegroGraph vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. Manticore Search vs. OpenSearch vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. Manticore Search vs. OpenSearch vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

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

A horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

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

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Vector 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	2.89
Rank	#103	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

allegrograph.com

cloud.google.com/spanner

manticoresearch.com

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

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

cloud.google.com/spanner/docs

manual.manticoresearch.com

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Franz Inc.

Google

Manticore Software

Amazon Web Services

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2004

2017

2021

2011

Current release

8.0, December 2023

6.0, February 2023

2.5.0, January 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

yes

Fixed schema

schema-free

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

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

Can index from XML

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

Query statements complying to ANSI 2011

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC

At present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

Sharding

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

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google 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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

by using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Strict serializable isolation

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

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 Manticore index.

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 (IAM)

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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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