DBMS > AllegroGraph vs. Hyprcubd vs. Kinetica vs. MarkLogic vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Hyprcubd vs. Kinetica vs. MarkLogic vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

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Name

Hyprcubd 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

Serverless Time Series DBMS

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL database

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store

as of version 7
Search engine

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.66
Rank	#234	Overall
	#107	Relational DBMS

Score	5.18
Rank	#63	Overall
	#11	Document stores
	#1	Native XML DBMS
	#1	RDF stores
	#7	Search engines

Score	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Website

allegrograph.com

hyprcubd.com (offline)

www.kinetica.com

www.marklogic.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

Technical documentation

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

docs.kinetica.com

docs.marklogic.com

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

Developer

Franz Inc.

Hyprcubd, Inc.

Kinetica

MarkLogic Corp.

Microsoft

Initial release

2004

2012

2001

2014

Current release

8.0, December 2023

7.1, August 2021

11.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

time, int, uint, float, string

yes

JSON types

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 properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

SQL-like query language

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL92

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

gRPC (https)

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API

Proprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT

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

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
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

user defined functions

yes

via XQuery or JavaScript

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

yes

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobs

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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

can act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transaction

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

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.

yes

GPU vRAM or System RAM

yes, with Range Indexes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

token access

Access rights for users and roles on table level

Role-based access control at the document and subdocument levels

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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