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DBMS > EsgynDB vs. FoundationDB vs. RDF4J vs. RDFox vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. FoundationDB vs. RDF4J vs. RDFox vs. Valentina Server

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NameEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.
DescriptionEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineObject-relational database and reports server
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
RDF storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.25
Rank#312  Overall
#138  Relational DBMS
Score1.06
Rank#185  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#85  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.29
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score0.21
Rank#325  Overall
#144  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.esgyn.cngithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbrdf4j.orgwww.oxfordsemantic.techwww.valentina-db.net
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbrdf4j.org/­documentationdocs.oxfordsemantic.techvalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
DeveloperEsgynFoundationDBSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Oxford Semantic TechnologiesParadigma Software
Initial release20152013200420171999
Current release6.2.28, November 20206.0, Septermber 20225.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++, JavaC++JavaC++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-free infosome layers support schemasyes infoRDF Schemasyes infoRDF schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno infosome layers support typingyesyesyes
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.no
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyessupported in specific SQL layer onlynonoyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
ODBC
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
Java
PHP
Python
C
Java
.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Proceduresin SQL-layer onlyyesyes
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication between multi datacentersyesnonereplication via a shared file system
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyLinearizable consistencyImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesin SQL-layer onlyyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
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.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnonoRoles, resources, and access typesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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