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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Blazegraph vs. PieCloudDB vs. Sphinx vs. Yaacomo

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonPieCloudDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
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 cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPPOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesOpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
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
Score0.81
Rank#213  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score0.32
Rank#289  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websiteallegrograph.comblazegraph.comwww.openpie.comsphinxsearch.comyaacomo.com
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmlwiki.blazegraph.comsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperFranz Inc.BlazegraphOpenPieSphinx Technologies Inc.Q2WEB GmbH
Initial release2004200620012009
Current release8.0, December 20232.1.5, March 20192.1, January 20233.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoextended commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Android
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoRDF literal typesyesnoyes
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 possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languageSPARQL is used as query languageyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocolJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
PL/SQL
Python
R
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common Lispyesuser defined functionsno
Triggersyesnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith FederationShardingyesSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedhorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesyesnoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in Graphsnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
AllegroGraphBlazegraphPieCloudDBSphinxYaacomo
Specific characteristicsKnowledge Graph Platform Leader FedShard - Designed for Entity-Event Knowledge Graph...
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PieCloudDB, OpenPie's flagship product, is a cutting-edge cloud-native data warehouse....
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Competitive advantagesAllegroGraph is uniquely suited to support adhoc queries through SPARQL, Prolog and...
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Extreme Elastic: PieCloudDB utilizes a cutting-edge eMPP cloud-native architecture...
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Typical application scenariosPieCloudDB is ideal for Data mining applications that require extreme scalability...
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Key customersSail-Cloud China Shipbuilding Group Haizhou System Soochow Securities ​etc.,
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Licensing and pricing modelsPieCloudDB Community Edition: Community License, Free Download, Self-Hosted Deployment;...
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