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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Dragonfly vs. Kinetica vs. MongoDB vs. Quasardb

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Name

Description

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

A drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instance

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

One of the most popular document stores available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS
Search engine

integrated Lucene index, currently in MongoDB Atlas only.
Time Series DBMS

Time Series Collections introduced in Release 5.0
Vector DBMS

currently available in the MongoDB Atlas cloud service only

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Trend Chart

Score	1.06
Rank	#187	Overall
	#30	Document stores
	#17	Graph DBMS
	#7	RDF stores
	#7	Vector DBMS

Score	0.41
Rank	#266	Overall
	#38	Key-value stores

Score	0.64
Rank	#236	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Score	421.65
Rank	#5	Overall
	#1	Document stores

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Website

allegrograph.com

github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io

www.kinetica.com

www.mongodb.com

quasar.ai

Technical documentation

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

www.dragonflydb.io/docs

docs.kinetica.com

www.mongodb.com/docs/manual

doc.quasar.ai/master

Developer

Franz Inc.

DragonflyDB team and community contributors

Kinetica

MongoDB, Inc

quasardb

Initial release

2004

2023

2012

2009

Current release

8.0, December 2023

1.0, March 2023

7.1, August 2021

6.0.7, June 2023

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

BSL 1.1

commercial

Open Source

MongoDB Inc.'s Server Side Public License v1. Prior versions were published under GNU AGPL v3.0. Commercial licenses are also available.

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C, C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

scheme-free

yes

schema-free

Although schema-free, documents of the same collection often follow the same structure. Optionally impose all or part of a schema by defining a JSON schema.

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arrays

yes

string, integer, double, decimal, boolean, date, object_id, geospatial

yes

integer and binary

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

Secondary indexes

yes

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

Read-only SQL queries via the MongoDB Atlas SQL Interface

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

GraphQL
HTTP REST
Prisma
proprietary protocol using JSON

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
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

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Actionscript

unofficial driver
C
C#
C++
Clojure

unofficial driver
ColdFusion

unofficial driver
D

unofficial driver
Dart

unofficial driver
Delphi

unofficial driver
Erlang
Go
Groovy

unofficial driver
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Lisp

unofficial driver
Lua

unofficial driver
MatLab

unofficial driver
Perl
PHP
PowerShell

unofficial driver
Prolog

unofficial driver
Python
R

unofficial driver
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Smalltalk

unofficial driver
Swift

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

Lua

user defined functions

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

yes

in MongoDB Atlas only

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

Sharding

Partitioned by hashed, ranged, or zoned sharding keys. Live resharding allows users to change their shard keys as an online operation with zero downtime.

Sharding

consistent hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

Multi-Source deployments with MongoDB Atlas Global Clusters
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency

can be individually decided for each read operation
Immediate Consistency

default behaviour

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of command blocks and scripts

Multi-document ACID Transactions with snapshot isolation

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, strict serializability by the server

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional, enabled by default

yes

by using LevelDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

GPU vRAM or System RAM

yes

In-memory storage engine introduced with MongoDB version 3.2

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

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

Password-based authentication

Access rights for users and roles on table level

Access rights for users and roles

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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