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DBMS > AllegroGraph vs. IRONdb vs. OrientDB vs. STSdb vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. IRONdb vs. OrientDB vs. STSdb vs. Vitess

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)Key-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Key-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.84
Rank#204  Overall
#35  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#10  Vector DBMS
Score3.02
Rank#88  Overall
#16  Document stores
#6  Graph DBMS
#12  Key-value stores
Score0.03
Rank#365  Overall
#54  Key-value stores
Score0.86
Rank#202  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Websiteallegrograph.comwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/orientdb.orggithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4vitess.io
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmldocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedwww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.htmlvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperFranz Inc.Circonus LLC.OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAPSTS Soft SCThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release20042017201020112013
Current release8.0, December 2023V0.10.20, January 20183.2.29, March 20244.0.8, September 201515.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++JavaC#Go
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxAll OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)WindowsDocker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasschema-freeschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")yesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes
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 possiblenono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languageSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)SQL-like query language, no joinsnoyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
HTTP APITinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
.NET Client APIADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
Java
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common Lispyes, in LuaJava, Javascriptnoyes infoproprietary syntax
TriggersyesnoHooksnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith FederationAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
configurable replication factor, datacenter awareMulti-source replicationnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono infocould be achieved with distributed queriesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes inforelationship in graphsnoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnoACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
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.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationnoAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurablenoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles
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