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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. BigObject vs. DataFS

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Name

Description

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

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Graph DBMS

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Score	1.06
Rank	#187	Overall
	#30	Document stores
	#17	Graph DBMS
	#7	RDF stores
	#7	Vector DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#354	Overall
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Website

allegrograph.com

bigobject.io

newdatabase.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.bigobject.io

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

Developer

Franz Inc.

BigObject, Inc.

Mobiland AG

Initial release

2004

2015

2018

Current release

8.0, December 2023

1.1.263, October 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

yes

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

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 DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

Lua

Triggers

yes

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

none

Proprietary Sharding system

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Windows-Profile

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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