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System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. RDF4J vs. RocksDB vs. SwayDB vs. TDengine

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Name

Description

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.

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.99
Rank	#124	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Score	2.60
Rank	#107	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS

Website

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

rdf4j.org/documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.tdengine.com

Developer

Exasol

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

Facebook, Inc.

Simer Plaha

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

Initial release

2000

2004

2013

2018

2019

Current release

8.11.4, April 2024

3.0, August 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Open Source

AGPL V3, also commercial editions available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

yes

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

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

Java
PHP
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Java
Kotlin
Scala

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

yes, via alarm monitoring

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

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

yes

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

yes

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