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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. jBASE vs. KairosDB vs. Kinetica vs. QuestDB

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsA high performance open source SQL database for time series data
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Multivalue DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score1.06
Rank#187  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#7  Vector DBMS
Score1.41
Rank#159  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websiteallegrograph.comwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasegithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbwww.kinetica.comquestdb.io
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmldocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9kairosdb.github.iodocs.kinetica.comquestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperFranz Inc.Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)KineticaQuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release20041991201320122014
Current release8.0, December 20235.71.2.2, November 20187.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC, C++Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasschema-freeschema-freeyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptionalyesyesyes
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 possibleyesnonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languageEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL with time-series extensions
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common Lispyesnouser defined functionsno
Triggersyesyesnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith FederationShardingSharding infobased on CassandraShardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replicationSource-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 configurationEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonoACID for single-table writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.noyesnoyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelsimple password-based access controlAccess rights for users and roles on table level
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AllegroGraphjBASEKairosDBKineticaQuestDB
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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