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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. RDF4J vs. SWC-DB vs. Tarantool

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

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

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

In-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applications

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

RDF store

Wide column store

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with Tarantool/GIS extension

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Score	0.87
Rank	#200	Overall
	#93	Relational DBMS

Score	0.72
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.01
Rank	#378	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	1.63
Rank	#139	Overall
	#25	Document stores
	#24	Key-value stores
	#65	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

rdf4j.org

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

www.tarantool.io

Technical documentation

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

rdf4j.org/documentation

www.tarantool.io/en/doc

Developer

Altibase

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

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

1999

2004

2020

2008

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

0.5, April 2021

2.10.0, May 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

BSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux

BSD
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

Flexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columns

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetime

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

SQL-like query language

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

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

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Open binary protocol

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

Java
PHP
Python

C++

C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

Lua, C and SQL stored procedures

Triggers

yes

yes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Sharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Asynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Casual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition

when using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition

when using Raft

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

ACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactions

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, cooperative multitasking

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

yes

yes, write ahead logging

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

yes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles

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