DBMS > BaseX vs. RDF4J vs. Snowflake vs. Trafodion vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. RDF4J vs. Snowflake vs. Trafodion vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

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

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

RDF store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#354	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

rdf4j.org/documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

BaseX GmbH

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

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2007

2004

2014

2011

Current release

11.0, June 2024

2.3.0, February 2019

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

hosted

Linux

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

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

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.Net

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

Java
PHP
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Based on Windows Authentication

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