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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Dgraph vs. FoundationDB vs. JanusGraph vs. Newts

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonJanusGraph infosuccessor of Titan  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.
DescriptionHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters infoIt was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Graph DBMSDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Graph DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial 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
Score1.45
Rank#156  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score1.03
Rank#190  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#89  Relational DBMS
Score1.94
Rank#129  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Websiteallegrograph.comdgraph.iogithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbjanusgraph.orgopennms.github.io/­newts
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmldgraph.io/­docsapple.github.io/­foundationdbdocs.janusgraph.orggithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wiki
DeveloperFranz Inc.Dgraph Labs, Inc.FoundationDBLinux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by AureliusOpenNMS Group
Initial release20042016201320172014
Current release8.0, December 20236.2.28, November 20200.6.3, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC++JavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasschema-freeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesno infosome layers support typingyesyes
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 indexesyesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languagenosupported in specific SQL layer onlynono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
HTTP REST
Java API
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
Clojure
Java
Python
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common Lispnoin SQL-layer onlyyesno
Triggersyesnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith FederationyesShardingyes infodepending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)Sharding infobased on Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Synchronous replication via Raftyesyesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engineno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyLinearizable consistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoin SQL-layer onlyyes infoRelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationno infoPlanned for future releasesnoUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Serverno
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