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System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. RDF4J vs. RocksDB vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

DolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.

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

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

RDF store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	4.13
Rank	#80	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Website

Technical documentation

docs.dolphindb.cn/en/help200/index.html

rdf4j.org/documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

DolphinDB, Inc

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

Facebook, Inc.

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2018

2004

2013

2018

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community version available

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust

Java
PHP
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

yes

Atomic execution of operations

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

Administrators, Users, Groups

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