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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. EsgynDB vs. GBase vs. MarkLogic vs. RDF4J

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

An analytical database for business intelligence with large customers in China.

Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL database

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store

as of version 7
Search engine

RDF store

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Score	1.00
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#319	Overall
	#141	Relational DBMS

Score	1.04
Rank	#190	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	6.50
Rank	#56	Overall
	#10	Document stores
	#1	Native XML DBMS
	#1	RDF stores
	#5	Search engines

Score	0.71
Rank	#231	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

docs.marklogic.com

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Altibase

Esgyn

MarkLogic Corp.

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

Initial release

1999

2015

2001

2004

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

GBase 8a

11.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced

yes

RDF Schemas

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

yes

SQL92

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API

Proprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

Java Stored Procedures

yes

via XQuery or JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobs

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

can act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transaction

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

yes, with Range Indexes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control at the document and subdocument levels

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