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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Infobright vs. Sphinx vs. Splice Machine vs. TerarkDB

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSHigh performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and SparkA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSKey-value store
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
Score0.96
Rank#194  Overall
#91  Relational DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.54
Rank#250  Overall
#114  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websiteallegrograph.comignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbsphinxsearch.comsplicemachine.comgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmlsphinxsearch.com/­docssplicemachine.com/­how-it-worksbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperFranz Inc.Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.Sphinx Technologies Inc.Splice MachineByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release20042005200120142016
Current release8.0, December 20233.5.1, February 20233.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freecommercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license availablecommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC++JavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesno
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 indexesyesno infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languageyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yesno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocolJDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common Lispnonoyes infoJavano
Triggersyesnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith FederationnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoYes, via Full Spark Integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardno
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AllegroGraphInfobrightSphinxSplice MachineTerarkDB
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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