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

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonClickHouse  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSAn embedded key-value store for Go.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.GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteIn-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score1.06
Rank#187  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#7  Vector DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score16.34
Rank#38  Overall
#23  Relational DBMS
Score1.47
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#72  Relational DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websiteallegrograph.comgithub.com/­boltdb/­boltclickhouse.comwww.gridgain.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmlclickhouse.com/­docswww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmltechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperFranz Inc.Clickhouse Inc.GridGain Systems, Inc.
Initial release20042013201620072014
Current release8.0, December 2023v24.3.2.23-lts, April 2024GridGain 8.5.1
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC++Java, C++, .NetJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesno
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 possiblenonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languagenoClose to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
GoC# info3rd party library
C++
Elixir info3rd party library
Go info3rd party library
Java info3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party library
Kotlin info3rd party library
Nim info3rd party library
Perl info3rd party library
PHP info3rd party library
Python info3rd party library
R info3rd party library
Ruby info3rd party library
Rust
Scala info3rd party library
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common Lispnoyesyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)View functions in JavaScript
Triggersyesnonoyes (cache interceptors and events)yes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith Federationnonekey based and customShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneAsynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.yes (replicated cache)none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)yes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesnoACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationnoAccess 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.Security Hooks for custom implementationsno
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