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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. GreptimeDB vs. InfinityDB vs. JanusGraph vs. Oracle

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Name

Description

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

An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiency

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

It was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017

Widely used RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

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

Score	0.06
Rank	#352	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#378	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Score	1.94
Rank	#129	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Website

www.oracle.com/database

Technical documentation

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

docs.greptime.com

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

docs.janusgraph.org

docs.oracle.com/en/database

Developer

Franz Inc.

Greptime Inc.

Boiler Bay Inc.

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

Oracle

Initial release

2004

2022

2002

2017

1980

Current release

8.0, December 2023

4.0

0.6.3, February 2023

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Rust

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

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

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

Java

Clojure
Java
Python

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

Python

yes

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

Sharding

none

yes

depending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts

Access control

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

Simple rights management via user accounts

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Key customers

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