DBMS > Derby vs. gStore vs. Netezza vs. RDF4J vs. Sequoiadb

System Properties Comparison Derby vs. gStore vs. Netezza vs. RDF4J 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.

A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

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

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Score	4.71
Rank	#69	Overall
	#37	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#359	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#18	RDF stores

Score	9.06
Rank	#46	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

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

Website

db.apache.org/derby

en.gstore.cn

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

rdf4j.org

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

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

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

rdf4j.org/documentation

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

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

IBM

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

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

1997

2016

2000

2004

2013

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

1.2, November 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

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

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

included in appliance

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

Java

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

Java
PHP
Python

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

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

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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

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

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

simple password-based access control

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