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DBMS > AllegroGraph vs. BoltDB vs. TerminusDB vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. BoltDB vs. TerminusDB vs. TinkerGraph

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSAn embedded key-value store for Go.Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Key-value storeGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
RDF store
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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
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#348  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websiteallegrograph.comgithub.com/­boltdb/­boltterminusdb.comtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmlterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperFranz Inc.DataChemist Ltd.
Initial release2004201320182009
Current release8.0, December 202311.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageGoProlog, RustJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
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 indexesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languagenoSQL-like query language (WOQL)no
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
GoJavaScript
Python
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common Lispnoyesno
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith FederationnoneGraph Partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneJournaling Streamsnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationnonenone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory journalingoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationnoRole-based access controlno
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AllegroGraphBoltDBTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemistTinkerGraph
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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