DBMS > AllegroGraph vs. jBASE vs. Manticore Search vs. Oracle vs. SingleStore

System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. jBASE vs. Manticore Search vs. Oracle vs. SingleStore

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Name

Description

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

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

Widely used RDBMS

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	5.60
Rank	#62	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Website

allegrograph.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

manticoresearch.com

www.oracle.com/database

www.singlestore.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

manual.manticoresearch.com

docs.oracle.com/en/database

docs.singlestore.com

Developer

Franz Inc.

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Manticore Software

Oracle

SingleStore Inc.

Initial release

2004

1991

2017

1980

2013

Current release

8.0, December 2023

5.7

6.0, February 2023

23c, September 2023

8.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

C++, Go

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux

64 bit version required

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

schema-free

Fixed schema

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

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

Can index from XML

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

yes

user defined functions

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

hash partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

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

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

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