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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Redis

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Name

Description

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

In-memory data structure store, used as database, cache and message broker

Redis focuses on performance so most of its design decisions prioritize high performance and very low latencies.

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store

Key-value store

Multiple data types and a rich set of operations, as well as configurable data expiration, eviction and persistence

Secondary database models

Document store

with Redis Modules
Graph DBMS

with Redis Modules
Search engine

with Redis Modules
Time Series DBMS

with Redis Modules

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Score	1.27
Rank	#150	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#13	Graph DBMS
	#7	RDF stores

Score	152.57
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Key-value stores

Website

allegrograph.com

redis.io

Technical documentation

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

redis.io/documentation

Developer

Franz Inc.

Salvatore Sanfilippo

Development sponsored by Redis Labs

Initial release

2004

2009

Current release

7.0.0, April 2020

6.2.0 , February 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

BSD 3-Clause, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

ported and maintained by Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc.

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes

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

with RediSearch module

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

Lua

Triggers

yes

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

with Redis Enterprise Pack
Source-replica replication

Chained replication is supported

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

Eventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Optimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scripts

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

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

Simple password-based access control

Access control lists and SSL are available in the commercial version

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Licensing and pricing models

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News

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