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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. GraphDB vs. H2GIS vs. ITTIA vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

Enterprise-ready RDF and graph database with efficient reasoning, cluster and external index synchronization support. It supports also SQL JDBC access to Knowledge Graph and GraphQL over SPARQL.

Spatial extension of H2

Edge Time Series DBMS with Real-Time Stream Processing

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.16
Rank	#338	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#32	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.25
Rank	#91	Overall
	#7	Graph DBMS
	#4	RDF stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.44
Rank	#267	Overall
	#23	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

graphdb.ontotext.com/documentation

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

Social network pages

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Ontotext

CNRS

ITTIA L.L.C.

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2012

2000

2013

2007

2018

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

10.4, October 2023

8.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

commercial

Some plugins of GraphDB Workbench are open sourced

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

Java

C and C++

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support; RDF shapes

yes

Fixed schema

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

yes

Float/Blob/Integer/String/Unicode/Date/Time/Timestamp/Interval

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

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes, supports real-time synchronization and indexing in SOLR/Elastic search/Lucene and GeoSPARQL geometry data indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

stored SPARQL accessed as SQL using Apache Calcite through JDBC/ODBC

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

GeoSPARQL
GraphQL
GraphQL Federation
Java API
JDBC
RDF4J API
RDFS
RIO
Sail API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL 1.1

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

.Net
C#
Clojure
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java

C
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

well-defined plugin interfaces; JavaScript server-side extensibility

yes

based on H2

yes

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

Multi-source replication

yes

based on H2

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Immediate Consistency, Eventual consistency (configurable in cluster mode per master or individual client request)

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Constraint checking

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

Default Basic authentication through RDF4J client, or via Java when run with cURL, default token-based in the Workbench or via Rest API, optional access through OpenID or Kerberos single sign-on.

yes

based on H2

Database file passwords

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Specific characteristics

Ontotext GraphDB is a semantic database engine that allows organizations to build...
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Competitive advantages

GraphDB allows you to link text and data in big knowledge graphs. It’s easy to experiment...
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Typical application scenarios

Metadata enrichment and management, linked data publishing, semantic inferencing...
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Key customers

GraphDB provides a platform for building next-generation AI and Knowledge Graph...
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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