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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Blazegraph vs. CouchDB vs. FileMaker vs. Riak KV

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.
DescriptionHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSHigh-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.A native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Document storeRelational DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extension
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Score1.06
Rank#187  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#7  Vector DBMS
Score0.75
Rank#219  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score9.30
Rank#45  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websiteallegrograph.comblazegraph.comcouchdb.apache.orgwww.claris.com/­filemaker
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmlwiki.blazegraph.comdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablewww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperFranz Inc.BlazegraphApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleOpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release20042006200519832009
Current release8.0, December 20232.1.5, March 20193.3.3, December 202319.4.1, November 20213.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise edition
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaErlangErlang
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
iOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoRDF literal typesnoyesno
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 possiblenoyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia viewsyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languageSPARQL is used as query languagenoyes infovia pluginsno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
PHPC infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common LispyesView functions in JavaScriptyesErlang
Triggersyesnoyesyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith FederationShardingSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0noneSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in Graphsnoyesno infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a single document possiblenono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)Access rights for users can be defined per databasesimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesyes, using Riak Security
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AllegroGraphBlazegraphCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"FileMakerRiak KV
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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