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DBMS > BoltDB vs. Graph Engine vs. RDF4J vs. TimescaleDB vs. Transwarp StellarDB

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Graph Engine vs. RDF4J vs. TimescaleDB vs. Transwarp StellarDB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp StellarDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineRDF4J 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 PostgreSQLA distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications
Primary database modelKey-value storeGraph DBMS
Key-value store
RDF storeTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.67
Rank#232  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#34  Key-value stores
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score4.46
Rank#71  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#371  Overall
#39  Graph DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.graphengine.iordf4j.orgwww.timescale.comwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­stellardb
Technical documentationwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualrdf4j.org/­documentationdocs.timescale.com
DeveloperMicrosoftSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.TimescaleTranswarp
Initial release2013201020042017
Current release2.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGo.NET and CJavaC
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
.NETLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infoRDF Schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntaxSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJava API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
OpenCypher
Supported programming languagesGoC#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyesuser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningnoneyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributeshorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes

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