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Name

Description

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

A secure embeddable database from IBM, positioned besides IBM Db2 as a relatively low-cost product optimized for OLTP and Internet of Things data

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

Since Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes compatible with MongoDB

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

with Informix TimeSeries Extension

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

Score	1.15
Rank	#166	Overall
	#29	Document stores
	#14	Graph DBMS
	#7	RDF stores

Score	23.37
Rank	#34	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Score	5.14
Rank	#79	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#5	Graph DBMS
	#12	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#354	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores

Website

allegrograph.com

www.ibm.com/products/informix

orientdb.org

dbmx.net/tkrzw

Technical documentation

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

informix.hcldoc.com
www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGU8G/welcomeIfxServers.html

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

Developer

Franz Inc.

IBM, HCL Technologies

Effective May 1st, 2017, HCL took on development, technical support, and product management teams, and works jointly with IBM on product strategy, marketing, and sales.

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Mikio Hirabayashi

Initial release

2004

1984

2010

2020

Current release

7.2.0, October 2021

14.10.FC5, November 2020

3.1.9, February 2021

0.9.3, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, C++ and Java

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Since Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

SQL-like query language, no joins

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

JDBC
JSON API

MongoDB compatible
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

yes

Java, Javascript

Triggers

yes

Hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

Sharding

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

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

using specific database classes

User concepts

Access control

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

Users with fine-grained authentication, authorization, and auditing controls

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

Knowledge Graph Platform Leader FedShard - Designed for Entity-Event Knowledge Graph...
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Competitive advantages

AllegroGraph is uniquely suited to support adhoc queries through SPARQL, Prolog and...
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News

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4 May 2022

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10 March 2022

Knowledge Graph Standards in Ambient Computing
15 February 2022

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31 January 2022

Authentic Meets Artificial – The New Intelligence – DM Radio Broadcast
13 January 2022

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