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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. MySQL vs. PouchDB vs. SurrealDB

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Name

Description

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

Widely used open source RDBMS

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.06
Rank	#187	Overall
	#30	Document stores
	#17	Graph DBMS
	#7	RDF stores
	#7	Vector DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	0.86
Rank	#203	Overall
	#34	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

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

dev.mysql.com/doc

pouchdb.com/guides

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

Franz Inc.

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Apache Software Foundation

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

2004

1995

2012

2022

Current release

8.0, December 2023

8.4.0, April 2024

7.1.1, June 2019

v1.1.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

JavaScript

Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

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

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

yes

schema-free

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

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

JavaScript

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

yes

proprietary syntax

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

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

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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