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Name

Description

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

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.07
Rank	#170	Overall
	#29	Document stores
	#15	Graph DBMS
	#7	RDF stores

Score	4.67
Rank	#80	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#5	Graph DBMS
	#12	Key-value stores

Website

allegrograph.com

orientdb.org

Technical documentation

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

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

Developer

Franz Inc.

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Initial release

2004

2010

Current release

7.2.0, October 2021

3.1.9, February 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Apache version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

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

SQL-like query language, no joins

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

Java, Javascript

Triggers

yes

Hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

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.

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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News

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30 June 2022

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10 June 2022

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20 May 2022

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19 May 2022

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