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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. InfinityDB vs. NuoDB vs. Sphinx vs. Transbase

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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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
Score0.89
Rank#198  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websiteallegrograph.comboilerbay.comwww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databasesphinxsearch.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmlboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualdoc.nuodb.comsphinxsearch.com/­docswww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperFranz Inc.Boiler Bay Inc.Dassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.Sphinx Technologies Inc.Transaction Software GmbH
Initial release20042002201320011987
Current release8.0, December 20234.03.5.1, February 2023Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freecommercialcommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++C and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMhosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeyesyesyes
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 possiblenonono
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)
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocolADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
Java.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common LispnoJava, SQLnoyes
Triggersyesnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith Federationnonedata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtenSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDBnoneSource-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 loadsACID infotunable commit protocolnoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCCyesyes
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.nonoyes infoTemporary tableno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationnoStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Usersnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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AllegroGraphInfinityDBNuoDBSphinxTransbase
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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