DBMS > AllegroGraph vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. OpenEdge vs. openGemini vs. Vertica

System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. OpenEdge vs. openGemini vs. Vertica

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Name

Description

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

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Application development environment with integrated database management system

An open source distributed Time Series DBMS with high concurrency, high performance, and high scalability

Cloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Column oriented

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.75
Rank	#215	Overall
	#36	Document stores
	#19	Graph DBMS
	#9	RDF stores
	#11	Vector DBMS

Score	23.95
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	3.56
Rank	#78	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#386	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	9.38
Rank	#42	Overall
	#26	Relational DBMS

Website

allegrograph.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.progress.com/openedge

www.opengemini.org
github.com/openGemini

www.vertica.com

Technical documentation

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

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

docs.opengemini.org/guide

vertica.com/documentation

Developer

Franz Inc.

Microsoft

Progress Software Corporation

Huawei and openGemini community

OpenText

previously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard

Initial release

2004

2014

1984

2022

2005

Current release

8.0, December 2023

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

1.1, July 2023

12.0.3, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Limited community edition free

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

on-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Yes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

yes

Integer, Float, Boolean, String

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

No Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

SQL-like query language

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL-like query language

Full 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL

character-based, interactive, front-end utility

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

JavaScript

yes

yes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

yes

yes, called Custom Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication

One, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Bi-directional Spark integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Users and groups

Administrators and common users accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash

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