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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Datomic vs. EDB Postgres vs. TerminusDB vs. Vertica

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityThe EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsCloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMS infoColumn oriented
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
RDF store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.75
Rank#215  Overall
#36  Document stores
#19  Graph DBMS
#9  RDF stores
#11  Vector DBMS
Score1.47
Rank#145  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score1.71
Rank#135  Overall
#61  Relational DBMS
Score0.15
Rank#326  Overall
#30  Graph DBMS
Score9.38
Rank#42  Overall
#26  Relational DBMS
Websiteallegrograph.comwww.datomic.comwww.enterprisedb.comterminusdb.comwww.vertica.com
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmldocs.datomic.comwww.enterprisedb.com/­docsterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#vertica.com/­documentation
DeveloperFranz Inc.CognitectEnterpriseDBDataChemist Ltd.OpenText infopreviously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard
Initial release20042012200520182005
Current release8.0, December 20231.0.7180, July 202414, December 202111.0.0, January 202312.0.3, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freecommercial infolimited edition freecommercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentsOpen Source infoGPL V3commercial infoLimited community edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono infoon-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureCProlog, RustC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasyesyesyesYes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 possiblenoyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesNo Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languagenoyes infostandard with numerous extensionsSQL-like query language (WOQL)Full 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL infocharacter-based, interactive, front-end utility
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
Clojure
Java
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
JavaScript
Python
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common Lispyes infoTransaction Functionsuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.yesyes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences
TriggersyesBy using transaction functionsyesyesyes, called Custom Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith Federationnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peershorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangeGraph Partitioninghorizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersMulti-source replicationJournaling StreamsMulti-source replication infoOne, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono infoBi-directional Spark integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyes infoin-memory journalingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentnono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash
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AllegroGraphDatomicEDB PostgresTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemistVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™
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