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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Datomic vs. Oracle Rdb vs. OrigoDB vs. RDF4J

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
RDF store
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Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#184  Overall
#85  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#53  Document stores
#20  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websitealtibase.comwww.datomic.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmlorigodb.comrdf4j.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.datomic.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmlorigodb.com/­docsrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperAltibaseCognitectOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)Robert Friberg et alSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release1999201219842009 infounder the name LiveDB2004
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20231.0.6735, June 20237.4.1.1, 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercial infolimited edition freecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++Java, ClojureC#Java
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
All OS with a Java VMHP Open VMSLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyes infoRDF Schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyes
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.nononono infocan be achieved using .NET
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92noyesnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
Clojure
Java
.NetJava
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsyes infoTransaction Functionsyesyes
TriggersyesBy using transaction functionsyes infoDomain Eventsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peershorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesdepending on model
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDyes, on a single nodeACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyes infoWrite ahead logyes infoin-memory storage is supported as well
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoRole based authorizationno

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