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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Dragonfly vs. EJDB vs. Sphinx vs. Titan

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
DescriptionHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Key-value storeDocument storeSearch engineGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.13
Rank#179  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#8  Vector DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#261  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score0.31
Rank#296  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websiteallegrograph.comgithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
github.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbsphinxsearch.comgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmlwww.dragonflydb.io/­docsgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdsphinxsearch.com/­docsgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperFranz Inc.DragonflyDB team and community contributorsSoftmotionsSphinx Technologies Inc.Aurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release20042023201220012012
Current release8.0, December 20231.0, March 20233.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++CC++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linuxserver-lessFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasscheme-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesstrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idnoyes
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 possibleno
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languagenonoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)no
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization Protocolin-process shared libraryProprietary protocolJava API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common LispLuanonoyes
Triggersyespublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalitynonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith FederationnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationnonenoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblenoyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, strict serializability by the serveryes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationPassword-based authenticationnonoUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server
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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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