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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. BigchainDB vs. Kdb vs. Quasardb vs. Sequoiadb

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsHigh performance Time Series DBMSDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Document storeTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
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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
Score7.71
Rank#49  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#258  Overall
#41  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Websiteallegrograph.comwww.bigchaindb.comkx.comquasar.aiwww.sequoiadb.com
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmlbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestcode.kx.comdoc.quasar.ai/­masterwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index
DeveloperFranz Inc.Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcquasardbSequoiadb Ltd.
Initial release200420162000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 200320092013
Current release8.0, December 20233.6, May 20183.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercial infofree 32-bit versioncommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonqC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes infointeger and binaryyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regex
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 possiblenoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yes infowith tagsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languagenoSQL-like query language (q)SQL-like query languageSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
HTTP APIproprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common Lispuser defined functionsnoJavaScript
Triggersyesyes infowith viewsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith FederationShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factorSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingwith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDDocument is locked during a transaction
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infoTransient modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationyesrights management via user accountsCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailsimple password-based access control
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AllegroGraphBigchainDBKdbQuasardbSequoiadb
Specific characteristicsKnowledge Graph Platform Leader FedShard - Designed for Entity-Event Knowledge Graph...
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Integrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantagesAllegroGraph is uniquely suited to support adhoc queries through SPARQL, Prolog and...
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provides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
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