DBMS > AllegroGraph vs. BaseX vs. Graph Engine vs. Oracle

System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. BaseX vs. Graph Engine vs. Oracle

Please select another system to include it in the comparison.

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

Name

Description

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

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

Widely used RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Native XML DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.84
Rank	#204	Overall
	#35	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS
	#7	RDF stores
	#10	Vector DBMS

Score	1.56
Rank	#141	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.56
Rank	#241	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#34	Key-value stores

Score	1286.59
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Website

allegrograph.com

basex.org

www.graphengine.io

www.oracle.com/database

Technical documentation

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

docs.basex.org

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

docs.oracle.com/en/database

Developer

Franz Inc.

BaseX GmbH

Microsoft

Oracle

Initial release

2004

2007

2010

1980

Current release

8.0, December 2023

11.2, August 2024

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Implementation language

Java

.NET and C

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

.NET

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XQuery supports types

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

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

yes

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts

Access control

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

News

AllegroGraph Named a 2024 Trend Setting Product
16 September 2024

Gartner recognized Franz Inc. as a Key Neuro-Symbolic AI Provider in 2024 Hype Cycle for AI
10 September 2024

Next-Generation Cybersecurity: Integrating Knowledge Graphs and Neuro-Symbolic AI with STIX and TAXII
10 September 2024

Pruning Cycles in UMLS Metathesaurus: A Neuro Symbolic AI Approach
9 September 2024

Awesome AI Companies – Franz Inc.
17 July 2024

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.