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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Ignite vs. OrientDB vs. Solr vs. Transbase

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSApache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache LuceneA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.06
Rank#187  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#7  Vector DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score3.19
Rank#93  Overall
#16  Document stores
#7  Graph DBMS
#14  Key-value stores
Score42.91
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websiteallegrograph.comignite.apache.orgorientdb.orgsolr.apache.orgwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmlapacheignite.readme.io/­docswww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.htmlsolr.apache.org/­resources.htmlwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperFranz Inc.Apache Software FoundationOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAPApache Software FoundationTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20042015201020061987
Current release8.0, December 2023Apache Ignite 2.63.2.29, March 20249.5.0, February 2024Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++, Java, .NetJavaJavaC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)All OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasyesschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")yes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fieldsyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typingyes
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 possibleyesnoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languageANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLSQL-like query language, no joinsSolr Parallel SQL Interfaceyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common Lispyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)Java, JavascriptJava pluginsyes
Triggersyesyes (cache interceptors and events)Hooksyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith FederationShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes (replicated cache)Multi-source replicationyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)no infocould be achieved with distributed queriesspark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduceno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes inforelationship in graphsnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDoptimistic lockingyes
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.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurableyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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AllegroGraphIgniteOrientDBSolrTransbase
Specific characteristicsKnowledge Graph Platform Leader FedShard - Designed for Entity-Event Knowledge Graph...
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Competitive advantagesAllegroGraph is uniquely suited to support adhoc queries through SPARQL, Prolog and...
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