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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Datomic vs. ObjectBox vs. Pinecone

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  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 durabilityExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileA managed, cloud-native vector database
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSObject oriented DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS
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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
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#95  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Websiteallegrograph.comwww.datomic.comobjectbox.iowww.pinecone.io
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmldocs.datomic.comdocs.objectbox.iodocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overview
DeveloperFranz Inc.CognitectObjectBox LimitedPinecone Systems, Inc
Initial release2004201220172019
Current release8.0, December 20231.0.6735, June 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesString, Number, Boolean
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 languagenonono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
RESTful HTTP APIProprietary native APIRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
Clojure
Java
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common Lispyes infoTransaction Functionsno
TriggersyesBy using transaction functionsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith Federationnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersonline/offline synchronization between client and server
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
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID
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 authenticationnoyes
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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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