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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. RDF4J vs. SWC-DB vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

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

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

RDF store

Wide column store

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.84
Rank	#204	Overall
	#35	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS
	#7	RDF stores
	#10	Vector DBMS

Score	0.72
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.01
Rank	#378	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	0.19
Rank	#311	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

allegrograph.com

rdf4j.org

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

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

rdf4j.org/documentation

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Franz Inc.

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Alex Kashirin

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2004

2020

2018

Current release

8.0, December 2023

0.5, April 2021

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

yes

RDF Schemas

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

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java
PHP
Python

C++

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

none

Sharding

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

yes

in-memory journaling

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

Role-based access control

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9 September 2024

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17 July 2024

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