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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. BoltDB vs. gStore vs. RocksDB vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

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

An embedded key-value store for Go.

A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.13
Rank	#179	Overall
	#30	Document stores
	#17	Graph DBMS
	#7	RDF stores
	#7	Vector DBMS

Score	0.80
Rank	#215	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	0.14
Rank	#342	Overall
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#16	RDF stores

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

allegrograph.com

github.com/boltdb/bolt

en.gstore.cn

rocksdb.org

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

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

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Franz Inc.

Facebook, Inc.

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2004

2013

2016

2013

2003

Current release

8.0, December 2023

1.2, November 2023

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

schema-free

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

schema-free

yes

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

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

C++ API
Java API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

yes

Multi-source replication

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

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

Access rights for users and roles

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Competitive advantages

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