DBMS > AllegroGraph vs. OpenEdge vs. OpenSearch vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. OpenEdge vs. OpenSearch vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. TigerGraph

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Name

Description

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

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Vector DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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

Score	3.51
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	36.31
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	1.83
Rank	#139	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Website

allegrograph.com

www.progress.com/openedge

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

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

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

opensearch.org/docs/latest

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

Franz Inc.

Progress Software Corporation

Amazon Web Services

SAP, Sybase

Initial release

2004

1984

2021

1987

2017

Current release

8.0, December 2023

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

2.5.0, January 2023

16.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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 search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

yes

Java and Transact-SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

yes

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

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

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.

User concepts

Access control

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

Users and groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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