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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Badger vs. Datomic vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Kdb

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonBadger  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSAn embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityCloud-based data warehousing serviceHigh performance Time Series DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.13
Rank#179  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#7  Vector DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#320  Overall
#47  Key-value stores
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score1.37
Rank#160  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Score7.71
Rank#49  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Websiteallegrograph.comgithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.datomic.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousekx.com
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmlgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerdocs.datomic.comcode.kx.com
DeveloperFranz Inc.DGraph LabsCognitectIBMKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc
Initial release20042017201220142000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003
Current release8.0, December 20231.0.7075, December 20233.6, May 2018
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infolimited edition freecommercialcommercial infofree 32-bit version
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageGoJava, Clojureq
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMhostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
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 infoImport/export of XML data possibleyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languagenonoyesSQL-like query language (q)
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
RESTful HTTP API.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
GoClojure
Java
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common Lispnoyes infoTransaction FunctionsPL/SQL, SQL PLuser defined functions
TriggersyesnoBy using transaction functionsyesyes infowith views
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith Federationnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
nonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processing
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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 developmentyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardrights management via user accounts
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AllegroGraphBadgerDatomicIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDBKdb
Specific characteristicsKnowledge Graph Platform Leader FedShard - Designed for Entity-Event Knowledge Graph...
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Integrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantagesAllegroGraph is uniquely suited to support adhoc queries through SPARQL, Prolog and...
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provides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
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