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DBMS > Derby vs. RDF4J vs. Spark SQL vs. Stardog vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Derby vs. RDF4J vs. Spark SQL vs. Stardog vs. STSdb

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NameDerby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingEnterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualizationKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRDF storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Key-value store
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Score4.71
Rank#69  Overall
#37  Relational DBMS
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score2.02
Rank#123  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websitedb.apache.org/­derbyrdf4j.orgspark.apache.org/­sqlwww.stardog.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdb.apache.org/­derby/­manuals/­index.htmlrdf4j.org/­documentationspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmldocs.stardog.com
DeveloperApache Software FoundationSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Apache Software FoundationStardog-UnionSTS Soft SC
Initial release19972004201420102011
Current release10.17.1.0, November 20233.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20237.3.0, May 20204.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/studentsOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScalaJavaC#
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infoRDF Schemasyesschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.yesnono infoImport/export of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatialno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsYes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Serverno
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJava API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
JDBC
ODBC
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesJavaJava
PHP
Python
Java
Python
R
Scala
.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Proceduresyesnouser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Javano
Triggersyesyesnoyes infovia event handlersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneyes, utilizing Spark Corenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnonenoneMulti-source replication in HA-Clusternone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in HA-Cluster
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes inforelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usednoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnonoAccess rights for users and rolesno

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