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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. BigObject vs. Blueflood vs. CockroachDB vs. RDFox

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraCockroachDB is a distributed database architected for modern cloud applications. It is wire compatible with PostgreSQL and backed by a Key-Value Store, which is either RocksDB or a purpose-built derivative, called Pebble.High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
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
#8  Vector DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score5.73
Rank#58  Overall
#34  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Websiteallegrograph.combigobject.ioblueflood.iowww.cockroachlabs.comwww.oxfordsemantic.tech
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmldocs.bigobject.iogithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikiwww.cockroachlabs.com/­docsdocs.oxfordsemantic.tech
DeveloperFranz Inc.BigObject, Inc.RackspaceCockroach LabsOxford Semantic Technologies
Initial release20042015201320152017
Current release8.0, December 202324.1.0, May 20246.0, Septermber 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Linux
OS X
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasyespredefined schemedynamic schemayes infoRDF schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTJDBCRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common LispLuanono
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith FederationnoneSharding infobased on Cassandrahorizontal partitioning (by key range) infoall tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFT
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication using RAFTreplication via a shared file system
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationnoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes
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.noyesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationnonoRole-based access controlRoles, resources, and access types
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Competitive advantagesAllegroGraph is uniquely suited to support adhoc queries through SPARQL, Prolog and...
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