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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Altibase vs. Datomic vs. Oracle vs. TigerGraph

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Name

Description

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

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

Widely used RDBMS

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

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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

Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	1.83
Rank	#139	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Website

allegrograph.com

altibase.com

www.datomic.com

www.oracle.com/database

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

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

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

docs.datomic.com

docs.oracle.com/en/database

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

Franz Inc.

Altibase

Cognitect

Oracle

Initial release

2004

1999

2012

1980

2017

Current release

8.0, December 2023

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

1.0.6735, June 2023

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java, Clojure

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

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

ANSI SQL-92

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

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

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Java

Clojure
Java

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

Transaction Functions

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

yes

Triggers

yes

By using transaction functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

Sharding

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

recommended only for testing and development

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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