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DBMS > AllegroGraph vs. Apache IoTDB vs. GraphDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Apache IoTDB vs. GraphDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. STSdb

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonApache IoTDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraphDB infoformer name: OWLIM  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSAn IoT native database with high performance for data management and analysis, deployable on the edge and the cloud and integrated with Hadoop, Spark and FlinkEnterprise-ready RDF and graph database with efficient reasoning, cluster and external index synchronization support. It supports also SQL JDBC access to Knowledge Graph and GraphQL over SPARQL.Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Search engineKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSVector DBMS
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Score1.13
Rank#179  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#7  Vector DBMS
Score1.31
Rank#164  Overall
#14  Time Series DBMS
Score3.25
Rank#91  Overall
#7  Graph DBMS
#4  RDF stores
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websiteallegrograph.comiotdb.apache.orgwww.ontotext.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmliotdb.apache.org/­UserGuide/­Master/­QuickStart/­QuickStart.htmlgraphdb.ontotext.com/­documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­search
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeGitHubMedium
DeveloperFranz Inc.Apache Software FoundationOntotextMicrosoftSTS Soft SC
Initial release20042018200020152011
Current release8.0, December 20231.1.0, April 202310.4, October 2023V14.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infoSome plugins of GraphDB Workbench are open sourcedcommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC#
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)All OS with a Java VM
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedWindows
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasyesschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support; RDF shapesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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 indexesyesyesyes, supports real-time synchronization and indexing in SOLR/Elastic search/Lucene and GeoSPARQL geometry data indexesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languageSQL-like query languagestored SPARQL accessed as SQL using Apache Calcite through JDBC/ODBCnono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
JDBC
Native API
GeoSPARQL
GraphQL
GraphQL Federation
Java API
JDBC
RDF4J API
RDFS
RIO
Sail API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL 1.1
RESTful HTTP API.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala
.Net
C#
Clojure
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common Lispyeswell-defined plugin interfaces; JavaScript server-side extensibilitynono
Triggersyesyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith Federationhorizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)noneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicasMulti-source replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoIntegration with Hadoop and Sparknonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft
Immediate Consistency, Eventual consistency (configurable in cluster mode per master or individual client request)Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoConstraint checkingnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnono
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.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationyesDefault Basic authentication through RDF4J client, or via Java when run with cURL, default token-based in the Workbench or via Rest API, optional access through OpenID or Kerberos single sign-on.yes infousing Azure authenticationno
More information provided by the system vendor
AllegroGraphApache IoTDBGraphDB infoformer name: OWLIMMicrosoft Azure AI SearchSTSdb
Specific characteristicsKnowledge Graph Platform Leader FedShard - Designed for Entity-Event Knowledge Graph...
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Ontotext GraphDB is a semantic database engine that allows organizations to build...
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Competitive advantagesAllegroGraph is uniquely suited to support adhoc queries through SPARQL, Prolog and...
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GraphDB allows you to link text and data in big knowledge graphs. It’s easy to experiment...
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Typical application scenariosMetadata enrichment and management, linked data publishing, semantic inferencing...
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Key customers​ GraphDB provides a platform for building next-generation AI and Knowledge Graph...
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Market metricsGraphDB is the most utilized semantic triplestore for mission-critical enterprise...
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Licensing and pricing modelsGraphDB Free is a non-commercial version and is free to use. GraphDB Enterprise edition...
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