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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Datomic vs. Kinetica vs. TerminusDB

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  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 durabilityFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
RDF store
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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
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websiteallegrograph.comwww.datomic.comwww.kinetica.comterminusdb.com
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmldocs.datomic.comdocs.kinetica.comterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperFranz Inc.CognitectKineticaDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release2004201220122018
Current release8.0, December 20231.0.6735, June 20237.1, August 202111.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freecommercial infolimited edition freecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureC, C++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinuxLinux
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languagenoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
Clojure
Java
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common Lispyes infoTransaction Functionsuser defined functionsyes
TriggersyesBy using transaction functionsyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith Federationnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardingGraph 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 peersSource-replica replicationJournaling Streams
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 or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
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 infoin-memory journaling
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 infoGPU vRAM or System RAM
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationnoAccess rights for users and roles on table levelRole-based access control
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AllegroGraphDatomicKineticaTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist
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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