DBMS > AllegroGraph vs. BigchainDB vs. LokiJS vs. RocksDB vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. BigchainDB vs. LokiJS vs. RocksDB vs. Spark SQL

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Name

Description

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

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Document store

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.13
Rank	#179	Overall
	#30	Document stores
	#17	Graph DBMS
	#7	RDF stores
	#7	Vector DBMS

Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	18.04
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Website

allegrograph.com

www.bigchaindb.com

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

rocksdb.org

spark.apache.org/sql

Technical documentation

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

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

Developer

Franz Inc.

Facebook, Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2004

2016

2014

2013

2014

Current release

8.0, December 2023

9.2.1, May 2024

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

JavaScript

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

schema-free

yes

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

via views

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

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Java
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

none

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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

yes

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