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DBMS > AllegroGraph vs. Dgraph vs. HEAVY.AI vs. HugeGraph vs. Lovefield

System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Dgraph vs. HEAVY.AI vs. HugeGraph vs. Lovefield

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Graph DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
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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
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Websiteallegrograph.comdgraph.iogithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
github.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
google.github.io/­lovefield
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmldgraph.io/­docsdocs.heavy.aihugegraph.apache.org/­docsgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.md
DeveloperFranz Inc.Dgraph Labs, Inc.HEAVY.AI, Inc.BaiduGoogle
Initial release20042016201620182014
Current release8.0, December 20235.10, January 20220.92.1.12, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC++ and CUDAJavaJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Unix
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasschema-freeyesyesyes
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 possiblenononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languagenoyesnoSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder pattern
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
Groovy
Java
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common Lispnonoasynchronous Gremlin script jobsno
TriggersyesnononoUsing read-only observers
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith FederationyesSharding infoRound robinyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBasenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Synchronous replication via RaftMulti-source replicationyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononovia hugegraph-sparkno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes infoedges in graphyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes infousing MemoryDB
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationno infoPlanned for future releasesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers, roles and permissionsno
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AllegroGraphDgraphHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022HugeGraphLovefield
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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