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DBMS > AllegroGraph vs. Kdb vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. OpenQM vs. Sadas Engine

System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Kdb vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. OpenQM vs. Sadas Engine

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Cosmos DB infoformer name was Azure DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSHigh performance Time Series DBMSGlobally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database serviceQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Multivalue DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.13
Rank#179  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#7  Vector DBMS
Score7.71
Rank#49  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score27.71
Rank#27  Overall
#4  Document stores
#2  Graph DBMS
#3  Key-value stores
#3  Wide column stores
Score0.34
Rank#284  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#373  Overall
#157  Relational DBMS
Websiteallegrograph.comkx.comazure.microsoft.com/­services/­cosmos-dbwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmwww.sadasengine.com
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmlcode.kx.comlearn.microsoft.com/­azure/­cosmos-dbwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentation
DeveloperFranz Inc.Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcMicrosoftRocket Software, originally Martin PhillipsSADAS s.r.l.
Initial release20042000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003201419932006
Current release8.0, December 20233.6, May 20183.4-128.0
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freecommercial infofree 32-bit versioncommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availablecommercial infofree trial version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageqC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedAIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasyesschema-freeyes infowith some exceptionsyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoJSON typesyes
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 possibleyesyesno
Secondary indexesyesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yes infoAll properties auto-indexed by defaultyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languageSQL-like query language (q)SQL-like query languagenoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common Lispuser defined functionsJavaScriptyesno
Triggersyesyes infowith viewsJavaScriptyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith Federationhorizontal partitioningSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyeshorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingwith Hadoop integration infoIntegration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*nono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoMulti-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partitionACID
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.noyesyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationrights management via user accountsAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
AllegroGraphKdbMicrosoft Azure Cosmos DB infoformer name was Azure DocumentDBOpenQM infoalso called QMSadas Engine
Specific characteristicsKnowledge Graph Platform Leader FedShard - Designed for Entity-Event Knowledge Graph...
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Integrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantagesAllegroGraph is uniquely suited to support adhoc queries through SPARQL, Prolog and...
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provides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
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