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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Graphite vs. Ingres vs. IRONdb vs. SwayDB

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperWell established RDBMSA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.84
Rank#204  Overall
#35  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#10  Vector DBMS
Score5.19
Rank#62  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score3.63
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#384  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websiteallegrograph.comgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/swaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmlgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.actian.com/­ingresdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started
DeveloperFranz Inc.Chris DavisActian CorporationCirconus LLC.Simer Plaha
Initial release200420061974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s20172018
Current release8.0, December 202312.0, July 2024V0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonCC and C++Scala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsno
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 possiblenono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availablenono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languagenoyesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)no
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
HTTP API
Sockets
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common Lispnoyesyes, in Luano
Triggersyesnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith Federationnonehorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslyAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneIngres Replicatorconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awarenone
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 configurationnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnoAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyes infoMVCCyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono
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