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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. RDF4J vs. Stardog vs. TerminusDB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareRDF4J 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 virtualizationScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRDF storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
RDF store
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Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score2.07
Rank#122  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
rdf4j.orgwww.stardog.comterminusdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.heavy.airdf4j.org/­documentationdocs.stardog.comterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperHEAVY.AI, Inc.Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Stardog-UnionDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20132016200420102018
Current release5.10, January 20227.3.0, May 202011.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.commercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/studentsOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoC++ and CUDAJavaJavaProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infoRDF Schemasschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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 infoImport/export of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoYes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL ServerSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame 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
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesGoAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesuser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Javayes
Triggersnonoyesyes infovia event handlersyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoRound robinnonenoneGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationnoneMulti-source replication in HA-ClusterJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in HA-Cluster
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes inforelationships in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users and rolesRole-based access control

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