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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. RDF4J vs. Tarantool vs. XTDB

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonTarantool  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.In-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applicationsA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRDF storeDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith Tarantool/GIS extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score1.67
Rank#143  Overall
#25  Document stores
#25  Key-value stores
#65  Relational DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websiterdf4j.orgwww.tarantool.iogithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationrdf4j.org/­documentationwww.tarantool.io/­en/­docwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.VKJuxt Ltd.
Initial release2008200420082019
Current release7.2.4, September 20122.10.0, May 20221.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoBSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool EnterpriseOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC and C++Clojure
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
BSD
Linux
macOS
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesyes infoRDF SchemasFlexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columnsschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesstring, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetimeyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsnoFull-featured ANSI SQL supportlimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJava API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Open binary protocolHTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
Java
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesLua, C and SQL stored proceduresno
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yesyes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session eventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneAsynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)
yes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemCasual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition infowhen using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition infowhen using Raft
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactionsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, cooperative multitaskingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyes, write ahead loggingyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPnoAccess Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles

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