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NameDatabend  Xexclude from comparisonGraphDB infoformer name: OWLIM  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn open-source, elastic, and workload-aware cloud data warehouse designed to meet businesses' massive-scale analytics needs at low cost and with low complexityEnterprise-ready RDF and graph database with efficient reasoning, cluster and external index synchronization support. It supports also SQL JDBC access to Knowledge Graph and GraphQL over SPARQL.A high performance open source SQL database for time series dataM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.34
Rank#283  Overall
#130  Relational DBMS
Score3.25
Rank#91  Overall
#7  Graph DBMS
#4  RDF stores
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­datafuselabs/­databend
www.databend.com
www.ontotext.comquestdb.iogithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationdocs.databend.comgraphdb.ontotext.com/­documentationquestdb.io/­docssitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeGitHubMedium
DeveloperDatabend LabsOntotextQuestDB Technology IncSiteWhere
Initial release2021200020142010
Current release1.0.59, April 202310.4, October 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infoSome plugins of GraphDB Workbench are open sourcedOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageRustJavaJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustJava
Server operating systemshosted
Linux
macOS
All OS with a Java VM
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support; RDF shapesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolpredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyes, supports real-time synchronization and indexing in SOLR/Elastic search/Lucene and GeoSPARQL geometry data indexesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesstored SPARQL accessed as SQL using Apache Calcite through JDBC/ODBCSQL with time-series extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
GeoSPARQL
GraphQL
GraphQL Federation
Java API
JDBC
RDF4J API
RDFS
RIO
Sail API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL 1.1
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
.Net
C#
Clojure
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnowell-defined plugin interfaces; JavaScript server-side extensibilityno
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonehorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)Sharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationSource-replica replication with eventual consistencyselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency, Eventual consistency (configurable in cluster mode per master or individual client request)Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoConstraint checkingnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDACID for single-table writesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.yes infothrough memory mapped filesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user rolesDefault Basic authentication through RDF4J client, or via Java when run with cURL, default token-based in the Workbench or via Rest API, optional access through OpenID or Kerberos single sign-on.Users with fine-grained authorization concept
More information provided by the system vendor
DatabendGraphDB infoformer name: OWLIMQuestDBSiteWhere
Specific characteristicsOntotext GraphDB is a semantic database engine that allows organizations to build...
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Relational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesGraphDB allows you to link text and data in big knowledge graphs. It’s easy to experiment...
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High ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosMetadata enrichment and management, linked data publishing, semantic inferencing...
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Financial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customers​ GraphDB provides a platform for building next-generation AI and Knowledge Graph...
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Banks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Market metricsGraphDB is the most utilized semantic triplestore for mission-critical enterprise...
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Licensing and pricing modelsGraphDB Free is a non-commercial version and is free to use. GraphDB Enterprise edition...
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Open source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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