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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Datomic vs. JanusGraph vs. OrientDB vs. PlanetScale

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonJanusGraph infosuccessor of Titan  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  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 durabilityA Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters infoIt was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)Scalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of Vitess
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSGraph DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.06
Rank#187  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#7  Vector DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score1.94
Rank#129  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
Score3.19
Rank#93  Overall
#16  Document stores
#7  Graph DBMS
#14  Key-value stores
Score1.59
Rank#151  Overall
#70  Relational DBMS
Websiteallegrograph.comwww.datomic.comjanusgraph.orgorientdb.orgplanetscale.com
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmldocs.datomic.comdocs.janusgraph.orgwww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.htmlplanetscale.com/­docs
DeveloperFranz Inc.CognitectLinux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by AureliusOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAPPlanetScale
Initial release20042012201720102020
Current release8.0, December 20231.0.6735, June 20230.6.3, February 20233.2.29, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureJavaJavaGo
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasyesyesschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")yes
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 possiblenonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languagenonoSQL-like query language, no joinsyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
RESTful HTTP APIJava API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
Clojure
Java
Clojure
Java
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common Lispyes infoTransaction FunctionsyesJava, Javascriptyes infoproprietary syntax
TriggersyesBy using transaction functionsyesHooksyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith Federationnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersyes infodepending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)ShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersyesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engineno infocould be achieved with distributed queriesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoRelationships in graphsyes inforelationship in graphsyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyesyes
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 developmentyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationnoUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph ServerAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurableUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles
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AllegroGraphDatomicJanusGraph infosuccessor of TitanOrientDBPlanetScale
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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