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DBMS > AllegroGraph vs. Apache Impala vs. Infobright vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Apache Impala vs. Infobright vs. LokiJS

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSAnalytic DBMS for HadoopHigh performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendIn-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
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
Score13.77
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.96
Rank#194  Overall
#91  Relational DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websiteallegrograph.comimpala.apache.orgignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmlimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmltechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperFranz Inc.Apache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.
Initial release2004201320052014
Current release8.0, December 20234.1.0, June 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++CJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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 indexesyesyesno infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common Lispyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenoView functions in JavaScript
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith FederationShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factorSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and Kerberosfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesno
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AllegroGraphApache ImpalaInfobrightLokiJS
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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