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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Oracle Rdb vs. RocksDB vs. SwayDB vs. TypeDB

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Name

Description

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

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

TypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Often described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.13
Rank	#179	Overall
	#30	Document stores
	#17	Graph DBMS
	#7	RDF stores
	#9	Vector DBMS

Score	1.14
Rank	#178	Overall
	#80	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Score	0.70
Rank	#230	Overall
	#20	Graph DBMS
	#106	Relational DBMS

Website

allegrograph.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

rocksdb.org

swaydb.simer.au

typedb.com

Technical documentation

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

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

typedb.com/docs

Developer

Franz Inc.

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Facebook, Inc.

Simer Plaha

Vaticle

Initial release

2004

1984

2013

2018

2016

Current release

8.0, December 2023

7.4.1.1, 2021

9.2.1, May 2024

2.26.3, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Open Source

GPL Version 3, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

HP Open VMS

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

schema-free

yes

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

C++ API
Java API

gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Java
Kotlin
Scala

All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

by using Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

none

Multi-source replication

by using Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

by using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

substituted by the relationship feature

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes, on a single node

yes

Atomic execution of operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

yes

at REST API level; other APIs in progress

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