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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Citus vs. Hive vs. KairosDB vs. LokiJS

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLdata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2In-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.13
Rank#179  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#8  Vector DBMS
Score2.15
Rank#117  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score59.76
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websiteallegrograph.comwww.citusdata.comhive.apache.orggithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmldocs.citusdata.comcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homekairosdb.github.iotechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperFranz Inc.Apache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by Facebook
Initial release20042010201220132014
Current release8.0, December 20238.1, December 20183.1.3, April 20221.2.2, November 2018
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCJavaJavaJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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 possibleyes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalitynono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languageyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common Lispuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.yes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenoView functions in JavaScript
Triggersyesyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith FederationShardingShardingSharding infobased on Cassandranone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsselectable replication factorselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonono 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.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and rolessimple password-based access controlno
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