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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. CouchDB vs. RDF4J vs. SpatiaLite

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.Spatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Document storeRDF storeSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionRelational DBMS
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Score0.84
Rank#204  Overall
#35  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#10  Vector DBMS
Score7.46
Rank#51  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score0.72
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score1.56
Rank#142  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websiteallegrograph.comcouchdb.apache.orgrdf4j.orgwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmldocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablerdf4j.org/­documentationwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperFranz Inc.Apache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Alessandro Furieri
Initial release2004200520042008
Current release8.0, December 20233.3.3, December 20235.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageErlangJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
server-less
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemasyes
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 possiblenono
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia viewsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languagenonoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJava API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languagesC#
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
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common LispView functions in JavaScriptyesno
Triggersyesyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith FederationSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0nonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
nonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a single document possibleACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyes
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 authenticationAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenono
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