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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. KeyDB vs. MaxDB vs. Transbase vs. VoltDB

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Name

Description

High performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMS

An ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocols

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.13
Rank	#179	Overall
	#30	Document stores
	#17	Graph DBMS
	#7	RDF stores
	#7	Vector DBMS

Score	0.70
Rank	#229	Overall
	#32	Key-value stores

Score	2.26
Rank	#114	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Score	1.47
Rank	#157	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

allegrograph.com

github.com/Snapchat/KeyDB
keydb.dev

maxdb.sap.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

franz.com/agraph/support/documentation/current/agraph-introduction.html

docs.keydb.dev

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Franz Inc.

EQ Alpha Technology Ltd.

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Transaction Software GmbH

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2004

2019

1984

1987

2010

Current release

8.0, December 2023

7.9.10.12, February 2024

Transbase 8.3, 2022

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

BSD-3

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

free development license

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Java, C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

bulk load of XML files possible

Secondary indexes

yes

by using the Redis Search module

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protoco

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

Lua

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Optimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scripts

ACID

yes

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

yes

Snapshots and command logging

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

simple password-based access control and ACL

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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