DBMS > AllegroGraph vs. Badger vs. BoltDB vs. Lovefield vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Badger vs. BoltDB vs. Lovefield vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

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

An embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

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

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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	0.14
Rank	#331	Overall
	#49	Key-value stores

Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

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

Website

allegrograph.com

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

github.com/boltdb/bolt

google.github.io/lovefield

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

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

godoc.org/github.com/dgraph-io/badger

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Franz Inc.

DGraph Labs

Google

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2004

2017

2013

2014

2013

Current release

8.0, December 2023

2.1.12, February 2017

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

schema-free

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

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

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

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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News

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3 April 2024

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9 February 2024

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23 January 2024

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8 January 2024

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