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DBMS > EXASOL vs. GeoMesa vs. RDF4J vs. SurrealDB vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. GeoMesa vs. RDF4J vs. SurrealDB vs. SwayDB

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NameEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMSAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRDF storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
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Score1.76
Rank#139  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitewww.exasol.comwww.geomesa.orgrdf4j.orgsurrealdb.comswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourceswww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlrdf4j.org/­documentationsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperExasolCCRi and othersSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.SurrealDB LtdSimer Plaha
Initial release20002014200420222018
Current release5.0.0, May 2024v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageScalaJavaRustScala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyes infoRDF Schemasschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
Java
PHP
Python
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyesno
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingdepending on storage layernonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layernonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoHadoop integrationyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layerImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedACIDAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesdepending on storage layeryes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagenoyes, based on authentication and database rulesno

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