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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. EXASOL vs. RDF4J vs. Splice Machine vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

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

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

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	0.30
Rank	#294	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	2.25
Rank	#120	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

Score	0.71
Rank	#231	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.54
Rank	#255	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

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

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

Technical documentation

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

www.exasol.com/resources

rdf4j.org/documentation

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

Developer

Softmotions

Exasol

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

Splice Machine

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2012

2000

2004

2014

2018

Current release

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

server-less

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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

in-process shared library

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

Java
Lua
Python
R

Java
PHP
Python

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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