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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Datomic vs. IRONdb vs. OpenEdge

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
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 durabilityA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityApplication development environment with integrated database management system
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score1.13
Rank#179  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#8  Vector DBMS
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score3.45
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Websiteallegrograph.comwww.datomic.comwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.progress.com/­openedge
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmldocs.datomic.comdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latest
DeveloperFranz Inc.CognitectCirconus LLC.Progress Software Corporation
Initial release2004201220171984
Current release8.0, December 20231.0.7075, December 2023V0.10.20, January 2018OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freecommercial infolimited edition freecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyes
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 possiblenonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languagenoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)yes infoclose to SQL 92
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
Clojure
Java
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common Lispyes infoTransaction Functionsyes, in Luayes
TriggersyesBy using transaction functionsnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith Federationnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersAutomatic, metric affinity per nodehorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyes
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 authenticationnonoUsers and groups
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AllegroGraphDatomicIRONdbOpenEdge
Specific characteristicsKnowledge Graph Platform Leader FedShard - Designed for Entity-Event Knowledge Graph...
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Competitive advantagesAllegroGraph is uniquely suited to support adhoc queries through SPARQL, Prolog and...
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