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System Properties Comparison Badger vs. Newts vs. RDF4J vs. TimescaleDB

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Name

Description

An embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

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

A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.14
Rank	#328	Overall
	#48	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.72
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	4.06
Rank	#73	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

opennms.github.io/newts

rdf4j.org

www.timescale.com

Technical documentation

godoc.org/github.com/dgraph-io/badger

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

rdf4j.org/documentation

docs.timescale.com

Developer

DGraph Labs

OpenNMS Group

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

Timescale

Initial release

2017

2014

2004

2017

Current release

2.15.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types

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

yes

full PostgreSQL SQL syntax

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST
Java API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

Java

Java
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

yes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate 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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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.

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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