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System Properties Comparison DataFS vs. Lovefield vs. Stardog vs. Trafodion

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

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Score	0.09
Rank	#360	Overall
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	2.07
Rank	#122	Overall
	#11	Graph DBMS
	#6	RDF stores

Website

newdatabase.com

google.github.io/lovefield

www.stardog.com

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

docs.stardog.com

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Mobiland AG

Google

Stardog-Union

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2018

2014

2010

2014

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

2.1.12, February 2017

7.3.0, May 2020

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

yes

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

JavaScript

.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

Using read-only observers

yes

via event handlers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Proprietary Sharding system

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

Windows-Profile

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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