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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. BoltDB vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. LokiJS vs. searchxml

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSAn embedded key-value store for Go.A horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.In-memory JavaScript DBMSDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMSDocument storeNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
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
Score2.89
Rank#103  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#25  Search engines
Websiteallegrograph.comgithub.com/­boltdb/­boltcloud.google.com/­spannergithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.searchxml.net/­category/­products
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmlcloud.google.com/­spanner/­docstechfort.github.io/­LokiJSwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperFranz Inc.Googleinformationpartners gmbh
Initial release20042013201720142015
Current release8.0, December 20231.0
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageGoJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Windows
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
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 possiblenononoyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languagenoyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011nono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC infoAt present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript APIRESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
GoGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScriptC++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common LispnonoView functions in JavaScriptyes infoon the application server
Triggersyesnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith FederationnoneShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.noneyes infosychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflowyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationnoneImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesACID infoStrict serializable isolationno infoatomic operations within a single collection possiblemultiple readers, single writer
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)noDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services
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AllegroGraphBoltDBGoogle Cloud SpannerLokiJSsearchxml
Specific characteristicsKnowledge Graph Platform Leader FedShard - Designed for Entity-Event Knowledge Graph...
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Competitive advantagesAllegroGraph is uniquely suited to support adhoc queries through SPARQL, Prolog and...
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