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System Properties Comparison DuckDB vs. H2GIS vs. RDF4J

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Name

Description

An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMS

Spatial extension of H2

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

RDF store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Rank	#65	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#378	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.65
Rank	#228	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

duckdb.org

www.h2gis.org

rdf4j.org

Technical documentation

duckdb.org/docs

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

CNRS

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

Initial release

2018

2013

2004

Current release

1.0.0, June 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

server-less

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

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

APIs and other access methods

Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

C
C#

3rd party driver
C++
Crystal

3rd party driver
Go

3rd party driver
Java
Lisp

3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby

3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig

3rd party driver

Java

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

based on H2

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

based on H2

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