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DBMS > BoltDB vs. OrientDB vs. RDFox vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. OrientDB vs. RDFox vs. SiteWhere

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score3.25
Rank#89  Overall
#16  Document stores
#6  Graph DBMS
#13  Key-value stores
Score0.29
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltorientdb.orgwww.oxfordsemantic.techgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationwww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.htmldocs.oxfordsemantic.techsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAPOxford Semantic TechnologiesSiteWhere
Initial release2013201020172010
Current release3.2.29, March 20246.0, Septermber 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoJavaC++Java
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")yes infoRDF schemaspredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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 indexesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language, no joinsnono
APIs and other access methodsTinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesGo.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava, Javascript
TriggersnoHooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationreplication via a shared file systemselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infocould be achieved with distributed queriesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setupsImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes inforelationship in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurableRoles, resources, and access typesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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