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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. CouchDB vs. MonetDB vs. RocksDB vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

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

A native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

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

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	1.06
Rank	#187	Overall
	#30	Document stores
	#17	Graph DBMS
	#7	RDF stores
	#7	Vector DBMS

Score	9.30
Rank	#45	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	1.72
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

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

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Franz Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developer

MonetDB BV

Facebook, Inc.

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2004

2005

2004

2013

2018

Current release

8.0, December 2023

3.3.3, December 2023

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

8.11.4, April 2024

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

schema-free

yes

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

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

View functions in JavaScript

yes, in SQL, C, R

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

Sharding via remote tables

horizontal partitioning

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

yes

Journaling Streams

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

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a single document possible

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

strategy: optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

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

Access rights for users can be defined per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

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Competitive advantages

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