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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. BoltDB vs. Firebird vs. LokiJS vs. Lovefield

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSAn embedded key-value store for Go.Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseIn-memory JavaScript DBMSEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial 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
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Websiteallegrograph.comgithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.firebirdsql.orggithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSgoogle.github.io/­lovefield
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmlwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualstechfort.github.io/­LokiJSgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.md
DeveloperFranz Inc.Firebird FoundationGoogle
Initial release200420132000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20142014
Current release8.0, December 20235.0.0, January 20242.1.12, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC and C++JavaScriptJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesnoyes
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 possiblenonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languagenoyesnoSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder pattern
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
GoC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScriptJavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common LispnoPSQLView functions in JavaScriptno
TriggersyesnoyesyesUsing read-only observers
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith Federationnonenonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneSource-replica replicationnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationnonenone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes infousing MemoryDB
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationnoUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptnono
More information provided by the system vendor
AllegroGraphBoltDBFirebirdLokiJSLovefield
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Competitive advantagesAllegroGraph is uniquely suited to support adhoc queries through SPARQL, Prolog and...
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