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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. jBASE vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Redis vs. TigerGraph

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Name

Description

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

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Popular in-memory data platform used as a cache, message broker, and database that can be deployed on-premises, across clouds, and hybrid environments

Redis focuses on performance so most of its design decisions prioritize high performance and very low latencies.

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

Multivalue DBMS

Key-value store

Multiple data types and a rich set of operations, as well as configurable data expiration, eviction and persistence

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store

with RedisJSON
Graph DBMS

with RedisGraph
Spatial DBMS
Search engine

with RediSearch
Time Series DBMS

with RedisTimeSeries
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	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#130	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	157.80
Rank	#6	Overall
	#1	Key-value stores

Score	1.83
Rank	#139	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Website

allegrograph.com

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

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

redis.com
redis.io

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

docs.redis.com/latest/index.html
redis.io/docs

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

Franz Inc.

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Oracle

Redis project core team, inspired by Salvatore Sanfilippo

Development sponsored by Redis Inc.

Initial release

2004

1991

2007

2009

2017

Current release

8.0, December 2023

5.7

14.1, August 2023

7.2.4, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Open Source

source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Redis Enterprise

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

ported and maintained by Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc.

Linux

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

yes

partial

Supported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes

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

with RediSearch module

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

with RediSQL module

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

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

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

.Net
C++
Java

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

yes

Lua; Redis Functions coming in Redis 7 (slides and Github)

yes

Triggers

yes

Live Events

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality; RedisGears

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

Sharding

Automatic hash-based sharding with support for hash-tags for manual sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

yes, with selectable consistency level

Multi-source replication

with Redis Enterprise Pack
Source-replica replication

Chained replication is supported

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

through RedisGears

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Causal consistency can be enabled in Active-Active databases
Strong consistency with Redis Raft
Strong eventual consistency with Active-Active

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

configurable

Atomic execution of command blocks and scripts and optimistic locking

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

yes

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

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

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

Access Control Lists (ACLs): redis.io/docs/management/security/acl
LDAP and Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) for Redis Enterprise
Mutual TLS authentication: redis.io/docs/management/security/encryption
Password-based authentication

Role-based access control

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