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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Lovefield vs. MySQL vs. Postgres-XL vs. RocksDB

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonMySQL  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptWidely used open source RDBMSBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS infoKey/Value like access via memcached APIRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
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Score1.06
Rank#187  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#7  Vector DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score1083.74
Rank#2  Overall
#2  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score3.65
Rank#85  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Websiteallegrograph.comgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldwww.mysql.comwww.postgres-xl.orgrocksdb.org
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmlgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mddev.mysql.com/­docwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wiki
DeveloperFranz Inc.GoogleOracle infosince 2010, originally MySQL AB, then SunFacebook, Inc.
Initial release2004201419952014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2013
Current release8.0, December 20232.1.12, February 20178.4.0, April 202410 R1, October 20189.2.1, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are availableOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC and C++CC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Linux
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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 possiblenoyesyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languageSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternyes infowith proprietary extensionsyes infodistributed, parallel query executionno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScriptAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common Lispnoyes infoproprietary syntaxuser defined functionsno
TriggersyesUsing read-only observersyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith Federationnonehorizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabrichorizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
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 configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID infonot for MyISAM storage engineACID infoMVCCyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infousing MemoryDByesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno
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