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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. GraphDB vs. InfinityDB vs. Manticore Search vs. SiteWhere

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonGraphDB infoformer name: OWLIM  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityEnterprise-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 Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Key-value storeSearch engineTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
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Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score3.25
Rank#91  Overall
#7  Graph DBMS
#4  RDF stores
Score0.08
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Score0.29
Rank#302  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.datomic.comwww.ontotext.comboilerbay.commanticoresearch.comgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comgraphdb.ontotext.com/­documentationboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualmanual.manticoresearch.comsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeGitHubMedium
DeveloperCognitectOntotextBoiler Bay Inc.Manticore SoftwareSiteWhere
Initial release20122000200220172010
Current release1.0.7075, December 202310.4, October 20234.06.0, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freecommercial infoSome plugins of GraphDB Workbench are open sourcedcommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureJavaJavaC++Java
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VM
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support; RDF shapesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeFixed schemapredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyes
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.nononoCan index from XMLno
Secondary indexesyesyes, supports real-time synchronization and indexing in SOLR/Elastic search/Lucene and GeoSPARQL geometry data indexesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnostored SPARQL accessed as SQL using Apache Calcite through JDBC/ODBCnoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIGeoSPARQL
GraphQL
GraphQL Federation
Java API
JDBC
RDF4J API
RDFS
RIO
Sail API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL 1.1
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
.Net
C#
Clojure
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaElixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionswell-defined plugin interfaces; JavaScript server-side extensibilitynouser defined functions
TriggersBy using transaction functionsnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnonenoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersMulti-source replicationnoneSynchronous replication based on Galera libraryselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
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 Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoConstraint checkingno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes inforecommended only for testing and developmentnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoDefault 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.nonoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept
More information provided by the system vendor
DatomicGraphDB infoformer name: OWLIMInfinityDBManticore SearchSiteWhere
Specific characteristicsOntotext GraphDB is a semantic database engine that allows organizations to build...
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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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Typical application scenariosMetadata enrichment and management, linked data publishing, semantic inferencing...
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Key customers​ GraphDB provides a platform for building next-generation AI and Knowledge Graph...
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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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