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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. IBM Cloudant vs. MySQL vs. SwayDB vs. Trafodion

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Widely used open source RDBMS

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial 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	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Website

allegrograph.com

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.mysql.com

swaydb.simer.au

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

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

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

dev.mysql.com/doc

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Franz Inc.

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Simer Plaha

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2004

2010

1995

2018

2014

Current release

8.0, December 2023

8.4.0, April 2024

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C and C++

Scala

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Java
Kotlin
Scala

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

proprietary syntax

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Atomic execution of operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

User concepts

Access control

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

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Competitive advantages

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