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DBMS > AllegroGraph vs. BigObject vs. BoltDB vs. GigaSpaces vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. BigObject vs. BoltDB vs. GigaSpaces vs. LokiJS

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesAn embedded key-value store for Go.High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsIn-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedKey-value storeDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Document store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSGraph DBMS
Search engine
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Score1.13
Rank#179  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#7  Vector DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score1.03
Rank#188  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websiteallegrograph.combigobject.iogithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.gigaspaces.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmldocs.bigobject.iodocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmltechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperFranz Inc.BigObject, Inc.Gigaspaces Technologies
Initial release20042015201320002014
Current release8.0, December 202315.5, September 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJava, C++, .NetJavaScript
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)
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesno
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 infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatano
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL-99 for query and DML statementsno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
Go.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common LispLuanoyesView functions in JavaScript
Triggersyesnonoyes, event driven architectureyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith FederationnonenoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
nonenoneMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationnonenoneImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoyesACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationnonoRole-based access controlno
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