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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. OrientDB vs. SAP HANA vs. searchxml vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

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

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	3.02
Rank	#88	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#6	Graph DBMS
	#12	Key-value stores

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	0.03
Rank	#365	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores

Website

allegrograph.com

orientdb.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.searchxml.net/category/products

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

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

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

help.sap.com/hana

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Franz Inc.

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

SAP

informationpartners gmbh

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2004

2010

2015

2011

Current release

8.0, December 2023

3.2.29, March 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

1.0

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Appliance or cloud-service

Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

SQL-like query language, no joins

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

Java, Javascript

SQLScript, R

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

Sharding

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

yes

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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