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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. searchxml vs. TimesTen vs. Transbase vs. VoltDB

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Name

Description

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

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

An in-memory SQL relational database that delivers microsecond response and high throughput for OLTP applications. TimesTen can be deployed as a standalone database or as a cache to a backend Oracle database.

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

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

Score	1.26
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#355	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Score	1.38
Rank	#156	Overall
	#72	Relational DBMS

Website

allegrograph.com

www.searchxml.net/category/products

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

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

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/timesten/index.html

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Franz Inc.

informationpartners gmbh

Oracle

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Transaction Software GmbH

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2004

2015

1998

1987

2010

Current release

8.0, December 2023

1.0

Release 22.1

Transbase 8.3, 2022

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

free development license

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Java, C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

IBM AIX Power PC 64-bit
Linux arm64
Linux x86-64
Solaris SPARC 64
Solaris SPARC/x86
Solaris x86-64

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

schema-free

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Pro*C/C++ programming interfaces
SQL and PL/SQL via JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

C
C++
Java
Node.js
PL/SQL
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

yes

on the application server

PL/SQL

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

yes

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

yes

Snapshots and command logging

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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