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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Ehcache vs. H2GIS vs. PostGIS vs. TinkerGraph

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsSpatial extension of H2Spatial extension of PostgreSQLA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Key-value storeSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score1.13
Rank#179  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#7  Vector DBMS
Score4.64
Rank#68  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#345  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websiteallegrograph.comwww.ehcache.orgwww.h2gis.orgpostgis.nettinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmlwww.ehcache.org/­documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homepostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperFranz Inc.Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AGCNRS
Initial release20042009201320052009
Current release8.0, December 20233.10.0, March 20223.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaCJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VM
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 possiblenonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languagenoyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
JCacheTinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaJavaGroovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common Lispnoyes infobased on H2user defined functionsno
Triggersyesyes infoCache Event Listenersyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith FederationSharding infoby using Terracotta Servernoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infoby using Terracotta Serveryes infobased on H2yes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationnoyes infobased on H2yes infobased on PostgreSQLno
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AllegroGraphEhcacheH2GISPostGISTinkerGraph
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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