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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. InfinityDB vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Sphinx vs. Tibero

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTibero  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Key-value storeDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Search engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial 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
Score0.00
Rank#378  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Score4.05
Rank#83  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score1.78
Rank#140  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Websiteallegrograph.comboilerbay.comwww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-irissphinxsearch.comus.tmaxsoft.com/­products/­tibero
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmlboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clssphinxsearch.com/­docstechnet.tmaxsoft.com/­upload/­download/­online/­tibero/­pver-20150504-000002/­index.html
DeveloperFranz Inc.Boiler Bay Inc.InterSystemsSphinx Technologies Inc.TmaxSoft
Initial release20042002201820012003
Current release8.0, December 20234.02023.3, June 20233.5.1, February 20236, April 2015
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C and Assembler
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradedepending on used data modelyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyesnoyes
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 possiblenoyesyes
Secondary indexesyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languagenoyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocolJDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
Java.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common LispnoyesnoPersistent Stored Procedure (PSM)
Triggersyesnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith FederationnoneShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedhorizontal partitioning infoby range, hash, list or composite
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneSource-replica replicationnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesno infoplanned for next version
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationnoyesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)
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AllegroGraphInfinityDBInterSystems IRISSphinxTibero
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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Competitive advantagesAllegroGraph is uniquely suited to support adhoc queries through SPARQL, Prolog and...
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