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

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Name

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

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

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.70
Rank	#225	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	3.02
Rank	#88	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#6	Graph DBMS
	#12	Key-value stores

Score	0.22
Rank	#305	Overall
	#25	Graph DBMS
	#15	RDF stores

Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

orientdb.org

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Oxford Semantic Technologies

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2013

2010

2017

2014

Current release

3.2.29, March 2024

6.0, Septermber 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

yes

RDF schemas

yes

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL-like query language, no joins

yes

APIs and other access methods

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
Java

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, Javascript

user defined functions

Triggers

Hooks

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

replication via a shared file system

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

Roles, resources, and access types

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

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