DBMS > AllegroGraph vs. OpenQM vs. OpenSearch vs. Sadas Engine vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. OpenQM vs. OpenSearch vs. Sadas Engine vs. Titan

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Name

Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.

Description

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

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

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

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.27
Rank	#298	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Website

allegrograph.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.sadasengine.com

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

Technical documentation

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

opensearch.org/docs/latest

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

Developer

Franz Inc.

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Amazon Web Services

SADAS s.r.l.

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

Initial release

2004

1993

2021

2006

2012

Current release

8.0, December 2023

3.4-12

2.5.0, January 2023

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

Apache license, version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

yes

with some exceptions

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

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Clojure
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

yes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

yes

via pluggable storage backends

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graph

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

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

AllegroGraph is uniquely suited to support adhoc queries through SPARQL, Prolog and...
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Distributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

The OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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