DBMS > AllegroGraph vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

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

Scalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualization

Widely used in-process key-value store

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.23
Rank	#307	Overall
	#24	Graph DBMS
	#13	RDF stores

Score	2.21
Rank	#117	Overall
	#20	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

allegrograph.com

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/berkeleydb.html

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

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

docs.cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph/userdoc/home.htm

docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/index.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Franz Inc.

Cambridge Semantics

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2004

2018

1994

2013

Current release

8.0, December 2023

2.3, January 2021

18.1.40, May 2020

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

commercial license available

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

schema-free

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

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

SPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

Apache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

C++
Java
Python

.Net

Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others

Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

user defined functions and aggregates

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

Automatic sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Kerberos/HDFS data loading

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency in MPP-Cluster

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

not needed in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Access rights for users and roles

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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