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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. GraphDB vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

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

Enterprise RDF and graph database with efficient reasoning, cluster and external index synchronization support

Widely used in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store info

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.95
Rank	#170	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#14	Graph DBMS
	#7	RDF stores

Score	1.39
Rank	#142	Overall
	#10	Graph DBMS
	#5	RDF stores

Score	126.82
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

allegrograph.com

graphdb.ontotext.com

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

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

graphdb.ontotext.com/documentation

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Franz Inc.

Ontotext

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2004

2000

Current release

7.0.0, April 2020

8.8, January 2019

3.32.2 (June 4, 2020), June 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial info

Limited community edition free

commercial info

limited edition free

Open Source info

Public Domain

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

Named S4, Ontotext provides a semantic graph database based on GraphDB in the cloud.

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) info

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM
Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

XML support info

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

yes, supports real-time synchronization and indexing in SOLR/Elastic search/Lucene and GeoSPARQL geometry data indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

GeoSPARQL
Java API
RDF4J API
RIO
Sail API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL 1.1

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC info

inofficial driver
ODBC info

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C#
Clojure
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

Java Server Plugin

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

none

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts info

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency, Eventual consistency (configurable in cluster mode per master or individual client request)

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

yes

Constraint checking

yes

Transaction concepts info

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

ACID

Concurrency info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

Durability info

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities info

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

yes

User concepts info

Access control

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

yes

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

Knowledge Graph Platform Leader FedShard - Designed for Entity-Event Knowledge Graph...
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GraphDB Enterprise is a high-performance semantic repository created by Ontotext....
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Competitive advantages

AllegroGraph is uniquely suited to support adhoc queries through SPARQL, Prolog and...
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GraphDB allows you to link text and data in big knowledge graphs. It’s easy to experiment...
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Typical application scenarios

Metadata enrichment and management, linked open data publishing, semantic inferencing...
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Key customers

BBC, Press Association, Financial Times, DK, Euromoney, The British Museum, Getty...
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Market metrics

GraphDB is the most utilized semantic triplestore for mission-critical enterprise...
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Licensing and pricing models

GraphDB-Free is free to use. SE and Enterprise are licensed per CPU-Core used. Perpetual...
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News

Knowledge graphs enhance customer experience through speed and accuracy
10 July 2020

AllegroGraph Named to 100 Companies That Matter Most in Data
22 June 2020

Bloor Research Covers AllegroGraph with FedShard
5 June 2020

AllegroGraph Tutorial – Distributed Repository Using Shards and Federation Setup
25 May 2020

Advanced Knowledge Graph Visualization with New Gruff v8
12 May 2020

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