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DBMS > AllegroGraph vs. Blazegraph vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. OrientDB vs. PlanetScale

System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Blazegraph vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. OrientDB vs. PlanetScale

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  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.Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)Scalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of Vitess
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Key-value store
Wide column store
Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.84
Rank#204  Overall
#35  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#10  Vector DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#217  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score2.97
Rank#92  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score3.02
Rank#88  Overall
#16  Document stores
#6  Graph DBMS
#12  Key-value stores
Score1.09
Rank#178  Overall
#82  Relational DBMS
Websiteallegrograph.comblazegraph.comcloud.google.com/­bigtableorientdb.orgplanetscale.com
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmlwiki.blazegraph.comcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docswww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.htmlplanetscale.com/­docs
DeveloperFranz Inc.BlazegraphGoogleOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAPPlanetScale
Initial release20042006201520102020
Current release8.0, December 20232.1.5, March 20193.2.29, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoextended commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnoyes
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Implementation languageJavaJavaGo
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedAll OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasschema-freeschema-freeschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoRDF literal typesnoyesyes
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 possiblenono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languageSPARQL is used as query languagenoSQL-like query language, no joinsyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common LispyesnoJava, Javascriptyes infoproprietary syntax
TriggersyesnonoHooksyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith FederationShardingShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno infocould be achieved with distributed queriesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in Graphsnoyes inforelationship in graphsyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDAtomic single-row operationsACIDACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
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.nonoyes
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, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurableUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles
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17 July 2024

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