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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. GeoMesa vs. RDF4J

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Name

Description

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

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store

Spatial DBMS

RDF store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.18
Rank	#208	Overall
	#33	Document stores
	#17	Graph DBMS
	#7	RDF stores

Score	0.87
Rank	#239	Overall
	#5	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.90
Rank	#233	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

allegrograph.com

www.geomesa.org

rdf4j.org

Technical documentation

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

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Franz Inc.

CCRi and others

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Initial release

2004

2014

2004

Current release

7.3.1, December 2022

4.0.4, October 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Scala

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

yes

RDF Schemas

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

depending on storage layer

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

depending on storage layer

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

depending on storage layer

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

In-memory capabilities

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

depending on storage layer

User concepts

Access control

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

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

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Competitive advantages

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