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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. AllegroGraph vs. Graphite vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

Multi-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQL

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

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.20
Rank	#321	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS
	#143	Relational DBMS

Score	1.06
Rank	#187	Overall
	#30	Document stores
	#17	Graph DBMS
	#7	RDF stores
	#7	Vector DBMS

Score	4.57
Rank	#73	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Score	5.59
Rank	#63	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

allegrograph.com

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

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

graphite.readthedocs.io

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Franz Inc.

Chris Davis

Microsoft

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2016

2004

2006

2015

2000

Current release

2.1, December 2018

8.0, December 2023

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Unix

hosted

server-less

Data scheme

depending on used data model

yes

RDF schemas

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

HTTP API
Sockets

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

with Federation

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

yes

via file-system locks

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

yes

using Azure authentication

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