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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Dragonfly vs. PieCloudDB vs. RDF4J vs. SwayDB

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonPieCloudDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
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 instanceA cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPPRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMSRDF storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score1.06
Rank#187  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#7  Vector DBMS
Score0.41
Rank#266  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score0.25
Rank#304  Overall
#138  Relational DBMS
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websiteallegrograph.comgithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
www.openpie.comrdf4j.orgswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmlwww.dragonflydb.io/­docsrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperFranz Inc.DragonflyDB team and community contributorsOpenPieSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Simer Plaha
Initial release2004202320042018
Current release8.0, December 20231.0, March 20232.1, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoBSL 1.1commercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++JavaScala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxhostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasscheme-freeyesyes infoRDF Schemasschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesstrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesyesno
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 possiblenono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languagenoyesnono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolCLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
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
Java
PL/SQL
Python
R
Java
PHP
Python
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common LispLuauser defined functionsyesno
Triggersyespublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalitynoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith Federationyesnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationyesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, strict serializability by the serveryesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationPassword-based authenticationUser Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standardnono
More information provided by the system vendor
AllegroGraphDragonflyPieCloudDBRDF4J infoformerly known as SesameSwayDB
Specific characteristicsKnowledge Graph Platform Leader FedShard - Designed for Entity-Event Knowledge Graph...
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PieCloudDB, OpenPie's flagship product, is a cutting-edge cloud-native data warehouse....
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Competitive advantagesAllegroGraph is uniquely suited to support adhoc queries through SPARQL, Prolog and...
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Extreme Elastic: PieCloudDB utilizes a cutting-edge eMPP cloud-native architecture...
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Typical application scenariosPieCloudDB is ideal for Data mining applications that require extreme scalability...
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Key customersSail-Cloud China Shipbuilding Group Haizhou System Soochow Securities ​etc.,
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Licensing and pricing modelsPieCloudDB Community Edition: Community License, Free Download, Self-Hosted Deployment;...
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