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DBMS > AnzoGraph DB vs. RDF4J vs. TerminusDB vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. RDF4J vs. TerminusDB vs. TinkerGraph

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NameAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualizationRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
RDF storeGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
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Score0.23
Rank#307  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#348  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitecambridgesemantics.com/­anzographrdf4j.orgterminusdb.comtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationdocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmrdf4j.org/­documentationterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperCambridge SemanticsSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.DataChemist Ltd.
Initial release2018200420182009
Current release2.3, January 202111.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaProlog, RustJava
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
Data schemeSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyes infoRDF Schemasyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.noSQL-like query language (WOQL)no
APIs and other access methodsApache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Python
Java
PHP
Python
JavaScript
Python
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesyesyesno
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingnoneGraph Partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication in MPP-ClusternoneJournaling Streamsnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsKerberos/HDFS data loadingnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency in MPP-Clusternone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infonot needed in graphsyesyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyes infoin-memory journalingoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesnoRole-based access controlno

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