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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Oracle vs. Sphinx vs. Splice Machine vs. TDSQL for MySQL

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonOracle  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparisonTDSQL for MySQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSWidely used RDBMSOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and SparkA high-performance distributed database management system with features such as automatic sharding, intelligent operation and maintenance, elastic scalability without downtime, and enterprise-grade security. It is highly compatible with MySQL.
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store infowith Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS infowith Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS infosince Oracle 23
Document store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.06
Rank#187  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#7  Vector DBMS
Score1236.29
Rank#1  Overall
#1  Relational DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.54
Rank#250  Overall
#114  Relational DBMS
Score0.85
Rank#205  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Websiteallegrograph.comwww.oracle.com/­databasesphinxsearch.comsplicemachine.comwww.tencentcloud.com/­products/­dcdb
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmldocs.oracle.com/­en/­databasesphinxsearch.com/­docssplicemachine.com/­how-it-workswww.tencentcloud.com/­document/­product/­1042
DeveloperFranz Inc.OracleSphinx Technologies Inc.Splice MachineTencent
Initial release20041980200120142013
Current release8.0, December 202323c, September 20233.5.1, February 20233.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freecommercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageC and C++C++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasyes infoSchemaless in JSON and XML columnsyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.no infobulk load of XML files possibleyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languageyes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yesyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary protocolJDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common LispPL/SQL infoalso stored procedures in Java possiblenoyes infoJavayes
Triggersyesyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith FederationSharding, horizontal partitioningSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar PartitioningAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infocan be realized in PL/SQLnoYes, via Full Spark Integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infoisolation level can be parameterizednoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoVersion 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept
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AllegroGraphOracleSphinxSplice MachineTDSQL for MySQL
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Competitive advantagesAllegroGraph is uniquely suited to support adhoc queries through SPARQL, Prolog and...
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