AllegroGraph vs Quine
AllegroGraph is a rdf database; Quine is a property graph database. AllegroGraph (2004, Proprietary, Common Lisp) ranks #36 this month; Quine (2022-02, MIT + Commons Clause, Scala) ranks #53.
| Attribute | AllegroGraph | Quine |
|---|---|---|
| At a glance | ||
| Rank | #36 | #53 |
| Score | 50.0 | 46.6 |
| GitHub stars | — | 364 |
| Popularity | 44.0 | 47.7 |
| Activity | 63.8 | 56.9 |
| Community | 36.0 | 30.3 |
| Research | 57.5 | 50.8 |
| Fundamentals | ||
| Description | An RDF triple store with built-in ontology reasoning capabilities. Supports OWL2 RL materialized reasoning for inferring new triples and federated queries across distributed stores. | A streaming graph engine written in Scala that ingests event streams and builds them into a stateful graph in real time. Uses standing queries to continuously match patterns and trigger actions as data arrives. Supports pluggable persistence via RocksDB, Cassandra, and ScyllaDB. |
| Vendor | Franz Inc | thatDot |
| Model | RDF | Property Graph |
| Kind | database | database |
| Category | Established | Emerging |
| First released | 2004 | 2022-02 |
| Status | active | active |
| License | Proprietary | MIT + Commons Clause |
| Written in | Common Lisp | Scala |
| Query languages | SPARQL, Prolog | openCypher, Gremlin |
| gdotv support | yes | no |
Feature scores — not surveyed for Quine
| Feature | AllegroGraph | Quine |
|---|---|---|
| Community & Business | ||
| Active development | ✓ | — |
| Commercial support | ✓ | — |
| Live community | · | — |
| Open Source | · | — |
| Pricing | ✓ | — |
| Trendiness | 0.5 | — |
| Deployment | ||
| Containerization | ✓ | — |
| Work as dedicated instance | ✓ | — |
| Work as embedded | · | — |
| Testing in-memory version | · | — |
| Platform | ||
| Operating on Linux | ✓ | — |
| Operating on Windows | · | — |
| SaaS offering | ✓ | — |
| Operations | ||
| Automatic updates | · | — |
| Client side caching | ✓ | — |
| Data versioning support | ✓ | — |
| Live backups | ✓ | — |
| Distribution | ||
| Cluster Re-balancing | ✓ | — |
| Data Distribution | ✓ | — |
| High-Availability | ✓ | — |
| Query Distribution | ✓ | — |
| Replication support | ✓ | — |
| Developer Experience | ||
| Data types defined | ✓ | — |
| Logging/Auditing | ✓ | — |
| Object-Graph Mapper | ✓ | — |
| Reactive programming | ✓ | — |
| Documentation up-to-date | ✓ | — |
| Binary protocol | · | — |
| CLI | ✓ | — |
| GUI | ✓ | — |
| Data Model | ||
| Multi-database | ✓ | — |
| Graph-native data | ✓ | — |
| REST API | ✓ | — |
| Query Language | ✓ | — |
| Transactions | ||
| Granular locking | · | — |
| Multiple isolation levels | ✓ | — |
| Read committed transaction | · | — |
| Transaction support | ✓ | — |
| Schema & Security | ||
| Constraints | ✓ | — |
| Schema support | ✓ | — |
| Secondary indexes | ✓ | — |
| Server side procedures | ✓ | — |
| Triggers | ✓ | — |
| Authentication | ✓ | — |
| Authorization | ✓ | — |
| Data encryption | · | — |
Links
- AllegroGraph · website · full profile
- Quine · website · github · full profile