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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Geode vs. RDF4J vs. SwayDB

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

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

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

Primary database model

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Score	1.99
Rank	#133	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	0.71
Rank	#231	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#373	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Website

geode.apache.org

rdf4j.org

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

geode.apache.org/docs

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

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

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2008

2002

2004

2018

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

1.1, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language (OQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

Java
PHP
Python

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes, on a single node

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

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

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Access rights per client and object definable

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