DBMS > AllegroGraph vs. Graphite vs. Hypertable vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Graphite vs. Hypertable vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. ToroDB

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Wide column store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Document store

Secondary database models

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	4.57
Rank	#73	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Website

allegrograph.com

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

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

graphite.readthedocs.io

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

Developer

Franz Inc.

Chris Davis

Hypertable Inc.

Microsoft

8Kdata

Initial release

2004

2006

2009

2014

2016

Current release

8.0, December 2023

0.9.8.11, March 2016

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Unix

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

hosted

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

yes

JSON types

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

HTTP API
Sockets

C++ API
Thrift

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

selectable replication factor on file system level

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

none

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

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 can be defined down to the item level

Access rights for users and roles

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