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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. Quasardb vs. RDF4J

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Name

Description

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

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

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

Primary database model

Document store

Time Series DBMS

RDF store

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Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

quasar.ai

rdf4j.org

Technical documentation

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

doc.quasar.ai/master

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Softmotions

quasardb

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

Initial release

2012

2009

2004

Current release

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

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

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

yes

integer and binary

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

with tags

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

HTTP API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

consistent hashing

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop 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

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

Read/Write Locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

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

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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