DBMS > AllegroGraph vs. atoti vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Qdrant vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. atoti vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Qdrant vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

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

An in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

A high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Vector DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.13
Rank	#179	Overall
	#30	Document stores
	#17	Graph DBMS
	#7	RDF stores
	#7	Vector DBMS

Score	0.61
Rank	#243	Overall
	#10	Object oriented DBMS

Score	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	1.28
Rank	#167	Overall
	#6	Vector DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

allegrograph.com

atoti.io

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

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

docs.atoti.io

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

qdrant.tech/documentation

Developer

Franz Inc.

ActiveViam

Microsoft

Qdrant

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2004

2014

2021

2018

Current release

8.0, December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

free versions available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Rust

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

Numbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean

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

Secondary indexes

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

Keywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

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

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

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

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

Python

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Collection-level replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

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

Eventual Consistency, tunable consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

Key-based authentication

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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