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System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. Cassandra vs. RDFox vs. TigerGraph vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

In-memory caching system

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Relational DBMS

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Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Score	101.89
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	0.23
Rank	#308	Overall
	#25	Graph DBMS
	#14	RDF stores

Score	1.83
Rank	#139	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Website

cachelot.io

cassandra.apache.org

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

www.tigergraph.com

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Oxford Semantic Technologies

8Kdata

Initial release

2015

2008

2017

2016

Current release

4.1.3, July 2023

6.0, Septermber 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF schemas

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

Memcached protocol

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

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

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
Java

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

replication via a shared file system

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

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

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Roles, resources, and access types

Role-based access control

Access rights for users and roles

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