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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-ready RDF and graph database with efficient reasoning, cluster and external index synchronization support. It supports also SQL JDBC access to Knowledge Graph and GraphQL over SPARQL.

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.27
Rank	#150	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#13	Graph DBMS
	#7	RDF stores

Score	2.14
Rank	#114	Overall
	#7	Graph DBMS
	#4	RDF stores

Score	123.17
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

allegrograph.com

www.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

9.6, February 2021

3.34.1, January 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Some plugins of GraphDB Workbench are open sourced

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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

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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; RDF shapes

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

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

stored SPARQL accessed as SQL using Apache Calcite through JDBC/ODBC

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

GeoSPARQL
GraphQL
GraphQL Federation
Java API
JDBC
RDF4J API
RDFS
RIO
Sail API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL 1.1

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

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

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

well-defined plugin interfaces; JavaScript server-side extensibility

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

none

Replication methods

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

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

Referential integrity

yes

Constraint checking

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Default Basic authentication through RDF4J client, or via Java when run with cURL, default token-based in the Workbench or via Rest API, optional access through OpenID or Kerberos single sign-on.

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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

Data-Centric Architecture Forum – DCAF 2021
1 February 2021

Data Fabrics and Knowledge Graphs — A Symbiotic Relationship
6 November 2020

RDF vs Property Graph – The Graph Show
3 November 2020

Text Analytics Forum 2020 – KMWorld Connect
27 October 2020

Sharing Ontologies Globally To Speed Science And Healthcare Solutions – OntoPortal
7 October 2020

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