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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. RocksDB

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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)

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.48
Rank	#188	Overall
	#31	Document stores
	#16	Graph DBMS
	#7	RDF stores

Score	4.31
Rank	#92	Overall
	#14	Key-value stores

Website

allegrograph.com

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

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

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Franz Inc.

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2004

2013

Current release

7.3.1, December 2022

7.10.2, March 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

schema-free

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

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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

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Competitive advantages

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News

Franz Inc. Named to KMWorld’s – 100 Companies That Matter in Knowledge Management
15 March 2023

What is a Semantic Layer?
6 January 2023

AllegroGraph Named “2023 – Trend Setting Product” by Database Trends and Applications
4 January 2023

The Hype Around Semantic Layers: How Important Are Standards?
11 November 2022

AllegroGraph Named “2022 Best Knowledge Graph” by KMWorld Readers’ Choice
9 November 2022

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