DBMS > Derby vs. LevelDB vs. RDF4J vs. Riak KV vs. Sequoiadb

System Properties Comparison Derby vs. LevelDB vs. RDF4J vs. Riak KV vs. Sequoiadb

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Name

Description

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

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

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Score	4.71
Rank	#69	Overall
	#37	Relational DBMS

Score	2.35
Rank	#111	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Website

db.apache.org/derby

github.com/google/leveldb

rdf4j.org

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

db.apache.org/derby/manuals/index.html

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

rdf4j.org/documentation

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Google

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

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

1997

2011

2004

2009

2013

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

1.23, February 2021

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

Java

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

Java
PHP
Python

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Erlang

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Document is locked during a transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with automatic compression on writes

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes, using Riak Security

simple password-based access control

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