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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. GeoMesa vs. Kinetica vs. Quasardb vs. SurrealDB

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Spatial DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score1.06
Rank#187  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#7  Vector DBMS
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#203  Overall
#34  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websiteallegrograph.comwww.geomesa.orgwww.kinetica.comquasar.aisurrealdb.com
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmlwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmldocs.kinetica.comdoc.quasar.ai/­mastersurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperFranz Inc.CCRi and othersKineticaquasardbSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release20042014201220092022
Current release8.0, December 20235.0.0, May 20247.1, August 20213.14.1, January 2024v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageScalaC, C++C++Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infointeger and binaryyes
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 indexesyesyesyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languagenoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP APIGraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common Lispnouser defined functionsno
Triggersyesnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith Federationdepending on storage layerShardingSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
depending on storage layerSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationdepending on storage layerImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nodepending on storage layeryes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageAccess rights for users and roles on table levelCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailyes, based on authentication and database rules
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AllegroGraphGeoMesaKineticaQuasardbSurrealDB
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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