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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. Citus vs. Heroic vs. InterSystems IRIS

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  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 virtualizationScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
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Score1.06
Rank#187  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#7  Vector DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#307  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score2.21
Rank#118  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score4.05
Rank#83  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Websiteallegrograph.comcambridgesemantics.com/­anzographwww.citusdata.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-iris
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmldocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmdocs.citusdata.comspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.cls
DeveloperFranz Inc.Cambridge SemanticsSpotifyInterSystems
Initial release20042018201020142018
Current release8.0, December 20232.3, January 20218.1, December 20182023.3, June 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freecommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinuxAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyesschema-freedepending on used data model
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 possiblenoyes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalitynoyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languageSPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.yes infostandard, with numerous extensionsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
Apache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common Lispuser defined functions and aggregatesuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.noyes
Triggersyesnoyesnoyes
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-ClusterSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsyesSource-replica replication
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-ClusterImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infonot needed in graphsyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnoACID
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.noyesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes
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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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