DBMS > AllegroGraph vs. Graphite vs. OpenEdge vs. OpenSearch vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Graphite vs. OpenEdge vs. OpenSearch vs. RDF4J

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Name

Description

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

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

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
Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Score	1.06
Rank	#187	Overall
	#30	Document stores
	#17	Graph DBMS
	#7	RDF stores
	#7	Vector DBMS

Score	4.57
Rank	#73	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.51
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

allegrograph.com

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

www.progress.com/openedge

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

rdf4j.org

Technical documentation

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

graphite.readthedocs.io

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

opensearch.org/docs/latest

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Franz Inc.

Chris Davis

Progress Software Corporation

Amazon Web Services

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

Initial release

2004

2006

1984

2021

2004

Current release

8.0, December 2023

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 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

Python

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Unix

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

RDF Schemas

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

HTTP API
Sockets

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

none

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication

yes

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

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

locking

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.

User concepts

Access control

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

Users and groups

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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