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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. AllegroGraph vs. Datomic vs. Infobright vs. Memgraph

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityHigh performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendAn open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score0.53
Rank#258  Overall
#40  Document stores
#119  Relational DBMS
Score1.03
Rank#199  Overall
#34  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#7  Vector DBMS
Score2.08
Rank#132  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score1.05
Rank#194  Overall
#91  Relational DBMS
Score3.09
Rank#105  Overall
#7  Graph DBMS
Websitealasql.orgallegrograph.comwww.datomic.comignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbmemgraph.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmldocs.datomic.commemgraph.com/­docs
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffFranz Inc.CognitectIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.Memgraph Ltd
Initial release20142004201220052017
Current release8.0, December 20231.0.6735, June 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infoLimited community edition freecommercial infolimited edition freecommercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016commercial infoFree license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJava, ClojureCC and C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoRDF schemasyesyesschema-free and schema-optional
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.nono infobulk load of XML files possiblenonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesno infoKnowledge Grid Technology used instead
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SPARQL is used as query languagenoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
Clojure
Java
.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoJavaScript or Common Lispyes infoTransaction Functionsno
TriggersyesyesBy using transaction functionsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonewith Federationnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnoneSharding infodynamic graph partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication using RAFT
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes inforelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACIDACIDACID infowith snapshot isolation
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesUsers, roles and permissions
More information provided by the system vendor
AlaSQLAllegroGraphDatomicInfobrightMemgraph
Specific characteristicsKnowledge Graph Platform Leader FedShard - Designed for Entity-Event Knowledge Graph...
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Memgraph directly connects to your streaming infrastructure so you and your team...
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Competitive advantagesAllegroGraph is uniquely suited to support adhoc queries through SPARQL, Prolog and...
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Business Source License ensures a future for the Memgraph community MAGE algorithm...
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Typical application scenariosGraph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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Licensing and pricing modelsYou can check out our pricing model and licenses on the company website .
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