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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. EsgynDB vs. Interbase vs. RDF4J

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Name

Description

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

RDF store

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Score	1.55
Rank	#144	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	0.15
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Score	3.78
Rank	#77	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	0.72
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

www.datomic.com

www.esgyn.cn

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

rdf4j.org

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Cognitect

Esgyn

Embarcadero

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

Initial release

2012

2015

1984

2004

Current release

1.0.7180, July 2024

InterBase 2020, December 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

C++, Java

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

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.

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

yes

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Interbase Change Views

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

recommended only for testing and development

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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