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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. LevelDB vs. MariaDB vs. Quasardb vs. searchxml

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Name

Description

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

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.06
Rank	#187	Overall
	#30	Document stores
	#17	Graph DBMS
	#7	RDF stores
	#7	Vector DBMS

Score	2.35
Rank	#111	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	93.21
Rank	#13	Overall
	#9	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Website

allegrograph.com

github.com/google/leveldb

mariadb.com

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org

Site of MariaDB Foundation

quasar.ai

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

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

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

doc.quasar.ai/master

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Franz Inc.

Google

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server)

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

quasardb

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2004

2011

2009

Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995

2009

2015

Current release

8.0, December 2023

1.23, February 2021

11.3.2, February 2024

3.14.1, January 2024

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

schema-free

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

with tags

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

none

several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding

Sharding

consistent hashing

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with automatic compression on writes

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

with MEMORY storage engine

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

Web, SaaS and Cloud operational applications that require high availability, scalability...
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Key customers

Deutsche Bank, DBS Bank, Nasdaq, Red Hat, ServiceNow, Verizon and Walgreens Featured...
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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