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DBMS > AllegroGraph vs. Dragonfly vs. Pinecone vs. Titan vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Dragonfly vs. Pinecone vs. Titan vs. ToroDB

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  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.ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
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 managed, cloud-native vector databaseTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Key-value storeVector DBMSGraph DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Trend Chart
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
Score3.16
Rank#95  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Websiteallegrograph.comgithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
www.pinecone.iogithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titangithub.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmlwww.dragonflydb.io/­docsdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperFranz Inc.DragonflyDB team and community contributorsPinecone Systems, IncAurelius, owned by DataStax8Kdata
Initial release20042023201920122016
Current release8.0, December 20231.0, March 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoBSL 1.1commercialOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0Open Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++JavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxhostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasscheme-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesstrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysString, Number, Booleanyesyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
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 possiblenonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languagenonono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolRESTful HTTP APIJava 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
PythonClojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common LispLuayes
Triggersyespublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith Federationyes infovia pluggable storage backendsSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes 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
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoRelationships in graphno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, strict serializability by the serveryesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationPassword-based authenticationUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph ServerAccess rights for users and roles
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Competitive advantagesAllegroGraph is uniquely suited to support adhoc queries through SPARQL, Prolog and...
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