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DBMS > AllegroGraph vs. RDF4J vs. RDFox vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. RDF4J vs. RDFox vs. TerminusDB

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
RDF storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.84
Rank#204  Overall
#35  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#10  Vector DBMS
Score0.72
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.22
Rank#305  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#15  RDF stores
Score0.19
Rank#311  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websiteallegrograph.comrdf4j.orgwww.oxfordsemantic.techterminusdb.com
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmlrdf4j.org/­documentationdocs.oxfordsemantic.techterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperFranz Inc.Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Oxford Semantic TechnologiesDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release2004200420172018
Current release8.0, December 20236.0, Septermber 202211.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.commercialOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasyes infoRDF Schemasyes infoRDF schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languagenonoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
Java
PHP
Python
C
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common Lispyesyes
Triggersyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith FederationnoneGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
nonereplication via a shared file systemJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationnoRoles, resources, and access typesRole-based access control
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AllegroGraphRDF4J infoformerly known as SesameRDFoxTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist
News

AllegroGraph Named a 2024 Trend Setting Product
16 September 2024

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10 September 2024

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10 September 2024

Pruning Cycles in UMLS Metathesaurus: A Neuro Symbolic AI Approach
9 September 2024

Podcast – Gartner AI Hype Cycle – Knowledge Graphs and Neuro-Symbolic AI
24 August 2024

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