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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. BigchainDB vs. Heroic vs. Machbase Neo vs. PouchDB

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Document storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.13
Rank#179  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#7  Vector DBMS
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#337  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websiteallegrograph.comwww.bigchaindb.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicmachbase.compouchdb.com
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmlbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestspotify.github.io/­heroicmachbase.com/­dbmspouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperFranz Inc.SpotifyMachbaseApache Software Foundation
Initial release20042016201420132012
Current release8.0, December 2023V8.0, August 20237.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree test version availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaCJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesno
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 possiblenononono
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languagenonoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common LispnonoView functions in JavaScript
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith FederationShardingShardingShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factoryesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesnoyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infovolatile and lookup tableyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationyessimple password-based access controlno
More information provided by the system vendor
AllegroGraphBigchainDBHeroicMachbase Neo infoFormer name was InfinifluxPouchDB
Specific characteristicsKnowledge Graph Platform Leader FedShard - Designed for Entity-Event Knowledge Graph...
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Competitive advantagesAllegroGraph is uniquely suited to support adhoc queries through SPARQL, Prolog and...
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