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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. OrientDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. SiteWhere

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Search engineDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSVector DBMSDocument store
Spatial 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
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score3.25
Rank#89  Overall
#16  Document stores
#6  Graph DBMS
#13  Key-value stores
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Websiteallegrograph.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchorientdb.orgwww.postgres-xl.orggithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmllearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchwww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.htmlwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperFranz Inc.MicrosoftOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAPSiteWhere
Initial release2004201520102014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2010
Current release8.0, December 2023V13.2.29, March 202410 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaCJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedAll OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)Linux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasyesschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")yespredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 possiblenonoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languagenoSQL-like query language, no joinsyes infodistributed, parallel query executionno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
RESTful HTTP APITinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common LispnoJava, Javascriptuser defined functions
TriggersyesnoHooksyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith FederationSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono infocould be achieved with distributed queriesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes inforelationship in graphsyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID infoMVCCno
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.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationyes infousing Azure authenticationAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept
More information provided by the system vendor
AllegroGraphMicrosoft Azure AI SearchOrientDBPostgres-XLSiteWhere
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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