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

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparisonYugabyteDB  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 TransactionsA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMSHigh-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.
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
Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSGraph DBMS
Search engine
Document store
Wide column store
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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
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Score2.63
Rank#109  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Websiteallegrograph.comwww.datomic.comwww.gigaspaces.comsurrealdb.comwww.yugabyte.com
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmldocs.datomic.comdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlsurrealdb.com/­docsdocs.yugabyte.com
github.com/­yugabyte/­yugabyte-db
DeveloperFranz Inc.CognitectGigaspaces TechnologiesSurrealDB LtdYugabyte Inc.
Initial release20042012200020222017
Current release8.0, December 20231.0.7075, December 202315.5, September 2020v1.5.0, May 20242.19, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureJava, C++, .NetRustC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasyesschema-freeschema-freedepending on used data model
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 metadatano
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languagenoSQL-99 for query and DML statementsSQL-like query languageyes, PostgreSQL compatible
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
RESTful HTTP APIGigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
Clojure
Java
.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common Lispyes infoTransaction Functionsyesyes infosql, plpgsql, C
TriggersyesBy using transaction functionsyes, event driven architectureyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith Federationnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardingHash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-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
Based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYStrong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDDistributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.
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 infobased on RocksDB
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 developmentyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationnoRole-based access controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesyes
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AllegroGraphDatomicGigaSpacesSurrealDBYugabyteDB
Specific characteristicsKnowledge Graph Platform Leader FedShard - Designed for Entity-Event Knowledge Graph...
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YugabyteDB is an open source distributed SQL database for cloud native transactional...
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Competitive advantagesAllegroGraph is uniquely suited to support adhoc queries through SPARQL, Prolog and...
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PostgreSQL compatible: Get instantly productive with a PostgreSQL compatible RDBMS....
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Typical application scenariosSystems of record and engagement for cloud native applications that require resilience,...
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Market metrics2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB Community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache 2.0 license for the database
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