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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Apache Pinot vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

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

Realtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latency

Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

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

Relational DBMS

Document store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.13
Rank	#179	Overall
	#30	Document stores
	#17	Graph DBMS
	#7	RDF stores
	#7	Vector DBMS

Score	0.38
Rank	#275	Overall
	#126	Relational DBMS

Score	13.64
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

allegrograph.com

pinot.apache.org

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

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

docs.pinot.apache.org

firebase.google.com/docs/database

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Franz Inc.

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2004

2015

2012

2013

Current release

8.0, December 2023

1.0.0, September 2023

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

yes

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

JDBC

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

Go
Java
Python

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

limited functionality with using 'rules'

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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