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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. Lovefield vs. Stardog vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

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

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

www.gbase.cn

google.github.io/lovefield

www.stardog.com

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

docs.stardog.com

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Google

Stardog-Union

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2004

2014

2010

2020

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

2.1.12, February 2017

7.3.0, May 2020

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

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

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

JavaScript

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

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.

yes

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

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

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

yes

via event handlers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster

Immediate Consistency

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

Access rights for users and roles

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