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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. AllegroGraph vs. Graphite vs. LokiJS vs. RDF4J

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperIn-memory JavaScript DBMSRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMSDocument storeRDF store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score1.06
Rank#187  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#7  Vector DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websitealasql.orgallegrograph.comgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSrdf4j.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmlgraphite.readthedocs.iotechfort.github.io/­LokiJSrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffFranz Inc.Chris DavisSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release20142004200620142004
Current release8.0, December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptPythonJavaScriptJava
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoRDF schemasyesschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesNumeric data onlynoyes
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 possiblenono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SPARQL is used as query languagenonono
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
HTTP API
Sockets
JavaScript APIJava API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScriptJava
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoJavaScript or Common LispnoView functions in JavaScriptyes
Triggersyesyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonewith Federationnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
nonenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationnonenone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDnono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes infoin-memory storage is supported as well
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationnonono
More information provided by the system vendor
AlaSQLAllegroGraphGraphiteLokiJSRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame
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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