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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. RDF4J vs. SiriDB vs. Stardog

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.Open Source Time Series DBMSEnterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSRDF storeTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.80
Rank#210  Overall
#35  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#11  Vector DBMS
Score74.53
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score0.77
Rank#214  Overall
#8  RDF stores
Score0.00
Rank#388  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#122  Overall
#10  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Websiteallegrograph.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databaserdf4j.orgsiridb.comwww.stardog.com
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmldocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqlrdf4j.org/­documentationdocs.siridb.comdocs.stardog.com
DeveloperFranz Inc.MicrosoftSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.CesbitStardog-Union
Initial release20042010200420172010
Current release8.0, December 2023V127.3.0, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freecommercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoMIT Licensecommercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++JavaCJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasyesyes infoRDF Schemasyesschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infoNumeric datayes
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 possibleyesnono infoImport/export of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languageyesnonoYes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
HTTP APIGraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
PHP
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common LispTransact SQLyesnouser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java
Triggersyesyesyesnoyes infovia event handlers
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith FederationnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes, with always 3 replicas availablenoneyesMulti-source replication in HA-Cluster
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 in HA-Cluster
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes inforelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usednoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnosimple rights management via user accountsAccess rights for users and roles
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AllegroGraphMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL AzureRDF4J infoformerly known as SesameSiriDBStardog
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