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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. LMDB vs. OrigoDB vs. Sphinx vs. SQream DB

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonLMDB  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSA high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database libraryA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Key-value storeDocument store
Object oriented 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
Score1.99
Rank#125  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#53  Document stores
#20  Object oriented DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.70
Rank#227  Overall
#104  Relational DBMS
Websiteallegrograph.comwww.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdborigodb.comsphinxsearch.comsqream.com
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmlwww.lmdb.tech/­docorigodb.com/­docssphinxsearch.com/­docsdocs.sqream.com
DeveloperFranz Inc.SymasRobert Friberg et alSphinx Technologies Inc.SQream Technologies
Initial release200420112009 infounder the name LiveDB20012017
Current release8.0, December 20230.9.32, January 20243.5.1, February 20232022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC#C++C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows
Linux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesUser defined using .NET types and collectionsnoyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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 infocan be achieved using .NET
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languagenonoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
Proprietary protocol.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl
.NetC++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common Lispnoyesnouser defined functions in Python
Triggersyesnoyes infoDomain Eventsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith Federationnonehorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedhorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneSource-replica replicationnonenone
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 ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonodepending on modelnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoWrite ahead logyes 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.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationnoRole based authorizationno
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AllegroGraphLMDBOrigoDBSphinxSQream DB
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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