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DBMS > Galaxybase vs. Graph Engine vs. Qdrant vs. RDF4J vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison Galaxybase vs. Graph Engine vs. Qdrant vs. RDF4J vs. TimescaleDB

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NameGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Vector DBMSRDF storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.07
Rank#377  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#232  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#34  Key-value stores
Score1.28
Rank#167  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score4.46
Rank#71  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websitegalaxybase.comwww.graphengine.iogithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
rdf4j.orgwww.timescale.com
Technical documentationwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualqdrant.tech/­documentationrdf4j.org/­documentationdocs.timescale.com
DeveloperChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司MicrosoftQdrantSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Timescale
Initial release20172010202120042017
Current releaseNov 20, November 20212.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and Java.NET and CRustJavaC
Server operating systemsLinux.NETDocker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeStrong typed schemayesschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumbers, Strings, Geo, Booleanyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsBrowser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
RESTful HTTP APIgRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined procedures and functionsyesyesuser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningShardingnoneyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesCollection-level replicationnoneSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency, tunable consistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in graphsnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlKey-based authenticationnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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