DBMS > Cassandra vs. Newts vs. RDF4J vs. TerminusDB vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison Cassandra vs. Newts vs. RDF4J vs. TerminusDB vs. Yanza

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Name

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Document store
RDF store

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Trend Chart

Score	103.86
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#396	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.71
Rank	#231	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.22
Rank	#323	Overall
	#28	Graph DBMS

Website

cassandra.apache.org

opennms.github.io/newts

rdf4j.org

terminusdb.com

yanza.com

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

rdf4j.org/documentation

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

OpenNMS Group

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

DataChemist Ltd.

Yanza

Initial release

2008

2014

2004

2018

2015

Current release

4.1.3, July 2023

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

Java

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

HTTP REST
Java API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java

Java
PHP
Python

JavaScript
Python

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Graph Partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

Journaling Streams

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

yes

in-memory journaling

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Role-based access control

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