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DBMS > AllegroGraph vs. Sphinx vs. Tigris vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Sphinx vs. Tigris vs. Yaacomo

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTigris  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
DescriptionHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA horizontally scalable, ACID transactional, document database available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructureOpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Search engineDocument store
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.16
Rank#179  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#7  Vector DBMS
Score6.03
Rank#60  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score0.01
Rank#388  Overall
#53  Document stores
#61  Key-value stores
#25  Search engines
#41  Time Series DBMS
Websiteallegrograph.comsphinxsearch.comwww.tigrisdata.comyaacomo.com
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmlsphinxsearch.com/­docswww.tigrisdata.com/­docs
DeveloperFranz Inc.Sphinx Technologies Inc.Tigris Data, Inc.Q2WEB GmbH
Initial release2004200120222009
Current release8.0, December 20233.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Android
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
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 possiblenono
Secondary indexesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languageSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)noyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
Proprietary protocolCLI Client
gRPC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common Lispnono
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith FederationSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes, using FoundationDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationnoAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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AllegroGraphSphinxTigrisYaacomo
Specific characteristicsKnowledge Graph Platform Leader FedShard - Designed for Entity-Event Knowledge Graph...
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Competitive advantagesAllegroGraph is uniquely suited to support adhoc queries through SPARQL, Prolog and...
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