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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Datomic vs. GigaSpaces vs. Kdb vs. SurrealDB

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  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 durabilityHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsHigh performance Time Series DBMSA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSGraph DBMS
Search engine
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.13
Rank#179  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#7  Vector DBMS
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score1.03
Rank#188  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score7.71
Rank#49  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websiteallegrograph.comwww.datomic.comwww.gigaspaces.comkx.comsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmldocs.datomic.comdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlcode.kx.comsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperFranz Inc.CognitectGigaspaces TechnologiesKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release2004201220002000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 20032022
Current release8.0, December 20231.0.7075, December 202315.5, September 20203.6, May 2018v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availablecommercial infofree 32-bit versionOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureJava, C++, .NetqRust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasyesschema-freeyesschema-free
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 possiblenono infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatayes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languagenoSQL-99 for query and DML statementsSQL-like query language (q)SQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
RESTful HTTP APIGigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
Clojure
Java
.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common Lispyes infoTransaction Functionsyesuser defined functions
TriggersyesBy using transaction functionsyes, event driven architectureyes infowith views
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith Federationnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardinghorizontal 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 replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsno infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyes
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 developmentyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationnoRole-based access controlrights management via user accountsyes, based on authentication and database rules
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AllegroGraphDatomicGigaSpacesKdbSurrealDB
Specific characteristicsKnowledge Graph Platform Leader FedShard - Designed for Entity-Event Knowledge Graph...
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Integrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantagesAllegroGraph is uniquely suited to support adhoc queries through SPARQL, Prolog and...
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provides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
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