DBMS > AllegroGraph vs. Kingbase vs. LokiJS vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Kingbase vs. LokiJS vs. Snowflake

Please select another system to include it in the comparison.

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

Name

Description

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

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	0.84
Rank	#204	Overall
	#35	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS
	#7	RDF stores
	#10	Vector DBMS

Score	0.44
Rank	#258	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	0.44
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores

Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

allegrograph.com

www.kingbase.com.cn

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

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

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Franz Inc.

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2004

1999

2014

Current release

8.0, December 2023

V8.0, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Implementation language

C and Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

hosted

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

JavaScript API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

JavaScript

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

user defined functions

View functions in JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

More information provided by the system vendor

News

AllegroGraph Named a 2024 Trend Setting Product
16 September 2024

Gartner recognized Franz Inc. as a Key Neuro-Symbolic AI Provider in 2024 Hype Cycle for AI
10 September 2024

Next-Generation Cybersecurity: Integrating Knowledge Graphs and Neuro-Symbolic AI with STIX and TAXII
10 September 2024

Pruning Cycles in UMLS Metathesaurus: A Neuro Symbolic AI Approach
9 September 2024

Awesome AI Companies – Franz Inc.
17 July 2024

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.