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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Graphite vs. QuestDB vs. SurrealDB vs. TempoIQ

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparisonTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB  Xexclude from comparison
TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed 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 WhisperA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMSScalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.13
Rank#179  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#9  Vector DBMS
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websiteallegrograph.comgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webquestdb.iosurrealdb.comtempoiq.com (offline)
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmlgraphite.readthedocs.ioquestdb.io/­docssurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperFranz Inc.Chris DavisQuestDB Technology IncSurrealDB LtdTempoIQ
Initial release20042006201420222012
Current release8.0, December 2023v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languagePythonJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustRust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyesyesyes
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 possiblenonono
Secondary indexesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languagenoSQL with time-series extensionsSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
HTTP API
Sockets
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
C#
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common Lispnonono
Triggersyesnonoyes infoRealtime Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith Federationnonehorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneSource-replica replication with eventual consistency
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 Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID for single-table writesACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyesyes
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.noyes infothrough memory mapped filesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationnoyes, based on authentication and database rulessimple authentication-based access control
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AllegroGraphGraphiteQuestDBSurrealDBTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB
Specific characteristicsKnowledge Graph Platform Leader FedShard - Designed for Entity-Event Knowledge Graph...
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Relational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesAllegroGraph is uniquely suited to support adhoc queries through SPARQL, Prolog and...
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High ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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