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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Apache Druid vs. Datomic vs. Graphite vs. Transbase

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational 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
Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websiteallegrograph.comdruid.apache.orgwww.datomic.comgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmldruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.datomic.comgraphite.readthedocs.iowww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperFranz Inc.Apache Software Foundation and contributorsCognitectChris DavisTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20042012201220061987
Current release8.0, December 202329.0.1, April 20241.0.6735, June 2023Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoApache license v2commercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, ClojurePythonC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
All OS with a Java VMLinux
Unix
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesNumeric data onlyyes
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 indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languageSQL for queryingnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
Sockets
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Clojure
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common Lispnoyes infoTransaction Functionsnoyes
TriggersyesnoBy using transaction functionsnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith FederationSharding infomanual/auto, time-basednone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infolockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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AllegroGraphApache DruidDatomicGraphiteTransbase
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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