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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. Graphite vs. RDF4J vs. TinkerGraph

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  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 virtualizationData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Time Series DBMSRDF storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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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
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.08
Rank#348  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websiteallegrograph.comcambridgesemantics.com/­anzographgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webrdf4j.orgtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmldocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmgraphite.readthedocs.iordf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperFranz Inc.Cambridge SemanticsChris DavisSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release20042018200620042009
Current release8.0, December 20232.3, January 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freecommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
Unix
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyesyes infoRDF Schemasschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyesyes
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 indexesyesnonoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languageSPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.nonono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
Apache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
HTTP API
Sockets
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++
Java
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
PHP
Python
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common Lispuser defined functions and aggregatesnoyesno
Triggersyesnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith FederationAutomatic shardingnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication in MPP-Clusternonenonenone
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-Clusternonenone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infonot needed in graphsnoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infolockingyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as welloptional
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 rolesnonono
More information provided by the system vendor
AllegroGraphAnzoGraph DBGraphiteRDF4J infoformerly known as SesameTinkerGraph
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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