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System Properties Comparison FatDB vs. RDFox vs. SingleStore vs. SpatiaLite vs. Stardog

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

Spatial extension of SQLite

Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.23
Rank	#308	Overall
	#25	Graph DBMS
	#14	RDF stores

Score	5.60
Rank	#62	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.02
Rank	#123	Overall
	#11	Graph DBMS
	#6	RDF stores

Website

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

www.singlestore.com

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

www.stardog.com

Technical documentation

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

docs.singlestore.com

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

docs.stardog.com

Developer

FatCloud

Oxford Semantic Technologies

SingleStore Inc.

Alessandro Furieri

Stardog-Union

Initial release

2012

2017

2013

2008

2010

Current release

6.0, Septermber 2022

8.5, January 2024

5.0.0, August 2020

7.3.0, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

commercial

60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Go

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

64 bit version required

server-less

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF schemas

yes

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial

SQL

Support of SQL

Via inetgration in SQL Server

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

yes

Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

C
Java

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

yes

user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

via event handlers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

hash partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

replication via a shared file system

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

none

Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

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

Can implement custom security layer via applications

Roles, resources, and access types

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

Access rights for users and roles

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Licensing and pricing models

F ree Tier and Enterprise Edition
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