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System Properties Comparison Derby vs. OrigoDB vs. RDFox vs. SpatiaLite vs. TinkerGraph

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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 fully ACID in-memory object graph database

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

Spatial extension of SQLite

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Spatial DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	4.71
Rank	#69	Overall
	#37	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#308	Overall
	#25	Graph DBMS
	#14	RDF stores

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#348	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

db.apache.org/derby

origodb.com

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

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

origodb.com/docs

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Robert Friberg et al

Oxford Semantic Technologies

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

1997

2009

under the name LiveDB

2017

2008

2009

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

6.0, Septermber 2022

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

yes

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net

C
Java

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

replication via a shared file system

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

yes

optional

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

Role based authorization

Roles, resources, and access types

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