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System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. IBM Db2 vs. RDF4J vs. VoltDB vs. YottaDB

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Name

Description

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

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

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

RDF store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	128.46
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	1.44
Rank	#158	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#317	Overall
	#47	Key-value stores

Website

www.esgyn.cn

www.ibm.com/products/db2

rdf4j.org

www.voltdb.com

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

rdf4j.org/documentation

docs.voltdb.com

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Esgyn

IBM

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

VoltDB Inc.

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2015

1983

host version

2004

2010

2001

Current release

12.1, October 2016

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free version is available

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

C and C++

Java

Java, C++

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X

for development

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

schema-free

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

only a subset of SQL 99

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Java
PHP
Python

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

yes

Snapshots and command logging

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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