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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Lovefield vs. RDF4J vs. Rockset

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

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

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

RDF store

Document store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Website

altibase.com

google.github.io/lovefield

rdf4j.org

rockset.com

Technical documentation

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

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

rdf4j.org/documentation

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Altibase

Google

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

Rockset

Initial release

1999

2014

2004

2019

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

Java

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

JavaScript

Java
PHP
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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