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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. MongoDB

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Name	AllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparison	MongoDB  Xexclude from comparison
Description	High performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMS	One of the most popular document stores available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure
Primary database model	Document store with version 6.5 Graph DBMS RDF store	Document store
Secondary database models	Spatial DBMS	Spatial DBMS Search engine integrated Lucene index, currently in MongoDB Atlas only. Time Series DBMS Time Series Collections introduced in Release 5.0
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 1.11 Rank #167   Overall #29   Document stores #14   Graph DBMS #7   RDF stores	Score 480.73 Rank #5   Overall #1   Document stores
Website	allegrograph.com	www.mongodb.com
Technical documentation	franz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.html	docs.mongodb.com/­manual
Developer	Franz Inc.	MongoDB, Inc
Initial release	2004	2009
Current release	7.2.0, October 2021	5.0.9, May 2022
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial Limited community edition free	Open Source MongoDB Inc.'s Server Side Public License v1. Prior versions were published under GNU AGPL v3.0. Commercial licenses are also available.
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no MongoDB available as DBaaS (MongoDB Atlas)
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Implementation language		C++
Server operating systems	Linux OS X Windows	Linux OS X Solaris Windows
Data scheme	yes RDF schemas	schema-free Although schema-free, documents of the same collection often follow the same structure. Optionally impose all or part of a schema by defining a JSON schema.
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes string, integer, double, decimal, boolean, date, object_id, geospatial
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.	no bulk load of XML files possible
Secondary indexes	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	SPARQL is used as query language	Read-only SQL queries via the MongoDB Connector for BI
APIs and other access methods	RESTful HTTP API SPARQL	proprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languages	C# Clojure Java Lisp Perl Python Ruby Scala	Actionscript unofficial driver C C# C++ Clojure unofficial driver ColdFusion unofficial driver D unofficial driver Dart unofficial driver Delphi unofficial driver Erlang Go Groovy unofficial driver Haskell Java JavaScript Lisp unofficial driver Lua unofficial driver MatLab unofficial driver Perl PHP PowerShell unofficial driver Prolog unofficial driver Python R unofficial driver Ruby Rust Scala Smalltalk unofficial driver Swift
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	yes JavaScript or Common Lisp	JavaScript
Triggers	yes	yes in MongoDB Atlas only
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	with Federation	Sharding Partitioned by hashed, ranged, or zoned sharding keys. Live resharding allows users to change their shard keys as an online operation with zero downtime.
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	Multi-source replication Source-replica replication	Multi-Source deployments with MongoDB Atlas Global Clusters Source-replica replication
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	yes
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration	Eventual Consistency Immediate Consistency can be individually decided for each write operation
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	no typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	ACID	Multi-document ACID Transactions with snapshot isolation
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes optional, enabled by default
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no	yes In-memory storage engine introduced with MongoDB version 3.2
User concepts Access control	Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication	Access rights for users and roles
More information provided by the system vendor
	AllegroGraph	MongoDB
Specific characteristics	Knowledge Graph Platform Leader FedShard - Designed for Entity-Event Knowledge Graph... » more	MongoDB’s application data platform provides developers a unified interface to power... » more
Competitive advantages	AllegroGraph is uniquely suited to support adhoc queries through SPARQL, Prolog and... » more	The MongoDB platform can be used by developers building transactional, operational,... » more
Typical application scenarios		Internet of Things and Time Series (Bosch, Jaguar Land Rover) Mobile (The Weather... » more
Key customers		ADP, Adobe, Amadeus, AstraZeneca, Auto Trader, Barclays, BBVA, Bosch, Cisco, CERN,... » more
Market metrics		200+ million downloads, over 1.5M Atlas database clusters under management handling... » more
Licensing and pricing models		MongoDB database server: Server-Side Public License (SSPL) . Commercial licenses... » more
News	Franz Inc. Named to Database Trends and Applications Top 100 Companies 10 June 2022 The Foundation of Data Fabrics and AI: Semantic Knowledge Graphs 20 May 2022 SCALE 2022 – Southern California Linux Expo 19 May 2022 IEEE – ICHI – Healthcare Informatics 19 May 2022 The Knowledge Graph Conference 2022 4 May 2022
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