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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. jBASE vs. RDF4J vs. Stardog vs. Weaviate

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Name

Description

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

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

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

Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization

An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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

Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	2.07
Rank	#122	Overall
	#11	Graph DBMS
	#6	RDF stores

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Website

bangdb.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

rdf4j.org

www.stardog.com

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

rdf4j.org/documentation

docs.stardog.com

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

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

Stardog-Union

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2012

1991

2004

2010

2019

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

5.7

7.3.0, May 2020

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

commercial

60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

optional

yes

string, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references

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

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial

yes

all data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

Java
PHP
Python

.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

via event handlers

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

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

yes

none

Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster

yes

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 in HA-Cluster

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

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, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

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, run db with in-memory only mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Access rights for users and roles

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

All companies that have data.
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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