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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Heroic vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Kdb vs. NCache

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityHigh performance Time Series DBMSOpen-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.06
Rank#187  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#7  Vector DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score4.05
Rank#83  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score7.55
Rank#53  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score0.94
Rank#195  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Websiteallegrograph.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-iriskx.comwww.alachisoft.com/­ncache
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmlspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clscode.kx.comwww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docs
DeveloperFranz Inc.SpotifyInterSystemsKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcAlachisoft
Initial release2004201420182000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 20032005
Current release8.0, December 20232023.3, June 20233.6, May 20185.3.3, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial infofree 32-bit versionOpen Source infoEnterprise Edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaqC#, .NET, .NET Core, Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasschema-freedepending on used data modelyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyespartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.no infobulk load of XML files possiblenoyesyesno
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languagenoyesSQL-like query language (q)SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common Lispnoyesuser defined functionsno infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR
Triggersyesnoyesyes infowith viewsyes infoNotifications
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith FederationShardingShardinghorizontal partitioningyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationyes, with selectable consistency level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnooptimistic locking and pessimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationyesrights management via user accountsAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)
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AllegroGraphHeroicInterSystems IRISKdbNCache
Specific characteristicsKnowledge Graph Platform Leader FedShard - Designed for Entity-Event Knowledge Graph...
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InterSystems IRIS is a complete cloud-first data platform which includes a multi-model...
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Integrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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NCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
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Competitive advantagesAllegroGraph is uniquely suited to support adhoc queries through SPARQL, Prolog and...
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provides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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NCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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NCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Bank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Market Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
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NCache Open Source is free on an as-is basis without any support. NCache Enterprise...
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