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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Newts vs. RethinkDB vs. TimesTen vs. VoltDB

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Name

Description

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

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

An in-memory SQL relational database that delivers microsecond response and high throughput for OLTP applications. TimesTen can be deployed as a standalone database or as a cache to a backend Oracle database.

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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

Score	0.84
Rank	#204	Overall
	#35	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS
	#7	RDF stores
	#10	Vector DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.58
Rank	#105	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	1.26
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Score	1.38
Rank	#156	Overall
	#72	Relational DBMS

Website

allegrograph.com

opennms.github.io/newts

rethinkdb.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

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

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

rethinkdb.com/docs

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/timesten/index.html

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Franz Inc.

OpenNMS Group

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Oracle

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2004

2014

2009

1998

2010

Current release

8.0, December 2023

2.4.1, August 2020

Release 22.1

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java, C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

IBM AIX Power PC 64-bit
Linux arm64
Linux x86-64
Solaris SPARC 64
Solaris SPARC/x86
Solaris x86-64

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

HTTP REST
Java API

ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Pro*C/C++ programming interfaces
SQL and PL/SQL via JDBC

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

C
C++
Java
Node.js
PL/SQL
Python

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

PL/SQL

Java

Triggers

yes

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

range based

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

yes

Snapshots and command logging

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

yes

users and table-level permissions

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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