DBMS > AllegroGraph vs. Dgraph vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Postgres-XL vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Dgraph vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Postgres-XL vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

High performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMS

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Graph DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.13
Rank	#179	Overall
	#30	Document stores
	#17	Graph DBMS
	#7	RDF stores
	#7	Vector DBMS

Score	1.53
Rank	#152	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	3.54
Rank	#84	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

allegrograph.com

dgraph.io

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

www.postgres-xl.org

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

franz.com/agraph/support/documentation/current/agraph-introduction.html

dgraph.io/docs

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Franz Inc.

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

InterSystems

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2004

2016

2018

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2013

Current release

8.0, December 2023

2023.3, June 2023

10 R1, October 2018

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

Linux
macOS

Linux

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

schema-free

depending on used data model

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

bulk load of XML files possible

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

yes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Synchronous replication via Raft

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

MVCC

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Planned for future releases

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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