DBMS > AllegroGraph vs. BoltDB vs. ClickHouse vs. Galaxybase vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. BoltDB vs. ClickHouse vs. Galaxybase vs. LokiJS

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Name

Description

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

A high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.06
Rank	#187	Overall
	#30	Document stores
	#17	Graph DBMS
	#7	RDF stores
	#7	Vector DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	16.34
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Website

allegrograph.com

github.com/boltdb/bolt

clickhouse.com

galaxybase.com

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

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

clickhouse.com/docs

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

Franz Inc.

Clickhouse Inc.

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

Initial release

2004

2013

2016

2017

2014

Current release

8.0, December 2023

v24.3.2.23-lts, April 2024

Nov 20, November 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux

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

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

schema-free

yes

Strong typed schema

schema-free

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

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

3rd party library
C++
Elixir

3rd party library
Go

3rd party library
Java

3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party library
Kotlin

3rd party library
Nim

3rd party library
Perl

3rd party library
PHP

3rd party library
Python

3rd party library
R

3rd party library
Ruby

3rd party library
Rust
Scala

3rd party library

Go
Java
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

yes

user defined procedures and functions

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

none

key based and custom

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

Asynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.

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

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

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

Access rights for users and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.

Role-based access control

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