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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. Blazegraph vs. GridDB vs. OrientDB

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.
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 virtualizationHigh-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Time Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
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Score1.13
Rank#179  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#9  Vector DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#303  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#14  RDF stores
Score0.81
Rank#213  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score2.09
Rank#120  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score3.25
Rank#89  Overall
#16  Document stores
#6  Graph DBMS
#13  Key-value stores
Websiteallegrograph.comcambridgesemantics.com/­anzographblazegraph.comgriddb.netorientdb.org
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmldocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmwiki.blazegraph.comdocs.griddb.netwww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.html
DeveloperFranz Inc.Cambridge SemanticsBlazegraphToshiba CorporationOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP
Initial release20042018200620132010
Current release8.0, December 20232.3, January 20212.1.5, March 20195.1, August 20223.2.29, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freecommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availableOpen Source infoApache version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxAll OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportschema-freeyesschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoRDF literal typesyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampyes
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 possiblenonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languageSPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.SPARQL is used as query languageSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)SQL-like query language, no joins
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
Apache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common Lispuser defined functions and aggregatesyesnoJava, Javascript
TriggersyesnonoyesHooks
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-ClusteryesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoKerberos/HDFS data loadingnoConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsno infocould be achieved with distributed queries
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency in MPP-ClusterImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containers
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infonot needed in graphsyes infoRelationships in Graphsnoyes inforelationship in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID at container levelACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationAccess rights for users and rolesSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)Access rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurable
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AllegroGraphAnzoGraph DBBlazegraphGridDBOrientDB
Specific characteristicsKnowledge Graph Platform Leader FedShard - Designed for Entity-Event Knowledge Graph...
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GridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Competitive advantagesAllegroGraph is uniquely suited to support adhoc queries through SPARQL, Prolog and...
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1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Typical application scenariosFactory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Key customersDenso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metricsGitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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