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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. BigchainDB vs. Heroic vs. Machbase Neo

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSScalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualizationBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Document storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.13
Rank#179  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#7  Vector DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#303  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#14  RDF stores
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#337  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Websiteallegrograph.comcambridgesemantics.com/­anzographwww.bigchaindb.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicmachbase.com
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmldocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestspotify.github.io/­heroicmachbase.com/­dbms
DeveloperFranz Inc.Cambridge SemanticsSpotifyMachbase
Initial release20042018201620142013
Current release8.0, December 20232.3, January 2021V8.0, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freecommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree test version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
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.no infobulk load of XML files possiblenononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languageSPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.nonoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
Apache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++
Java
Python
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common Lispuser defined functions and aggregatesnono
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith FederationAutomatic shardingShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication in MPP-Clusterselectable replication factoryesselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoKerberos/HDFS data loadingnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency in MPP-ClusterEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infonot needed in graphsnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesno
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes infovolatile and lookup table
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationAccess rights for users and rolesyessimple password-based access control
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AllegroGraphAnzoGraph DBBigchainDBHeroicMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux
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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