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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. EJDB vs. GraphDB vs. Heroic vs. MonetDB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraphDB infoformer name: OWLIM  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)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.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA relational database management system that stores data in columns
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.27
Rank#297  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score3.32
Rank#91  Overall
#6  Graph DBMS
#4  RDF stores
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbwww.ontotext.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.monetdb.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdgraphdb.ontotext.com/­documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicwww.monetdb.org/­Documentation
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeGitHubMedium
DeveloperSoftmotionsOntotextSpotifyMonetDB BV
Initial release20132012200020142004
Current release10.4, October 2023Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoGPLv2commercial infoSome plugins of GraphDB Workbench are open sourcedOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoCJavaJavaC
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-lessAll OS with a Java VM
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support; RDF shapesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesyesyes
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 indexesnonoyes, supports real-time synchronization and indexing in SOLR/Elastic search/Lucene and GeoSPARQL geometry data indexesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonostored SPARQL accessed as SQL using Apache Calcite through JDBC/ODBCnoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensions
APIs and other access methodsin-process shared libraryGeoSPARQL
GraphQL
GraphQL Federation
Java API
JDBC
RDF4J API
RDFS
RIO
Sail API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL 1.1
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGoActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
.Net
C#
Clojure
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonowell-defined plugin interfaces; JavaScript server-side extensibilitynoyes, in SQL, C, R
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneShardingSharding via remote tables
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneMulti-source replicationyesnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental status
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency, Eventual consistency (configurable in cluster mode per master or individual client request)Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleyes infoConstraint checkingnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoDefault 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.fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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BoltDBEJDBGraphDB infoformer name: OWLIMHeroicMonetDB
Specific characteristicsOntotext GraphDB is a semantic database engine that allows organizations to build...
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Competitive advantagesGraphDB allows you to link text and data in big knowledge graphs. It’s easy to experiment...
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Typical application scenariosMetadata 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 metricsGraphDB is the most utilized semantic triplestore for mission-critical enterprise...
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Licensing and pricing modelsGraphDB Free is a non-commercial version and is free to use. GraphDB Enterprise edition...
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