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System Properties Comparison Galaxybase vs. Kinetica vs. Quasardb vs. RDF4J

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Name

Description

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.07
Rank	#377	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Score	0.66
Rank	#234	Overall
	#107	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#322	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

Technical documentation

docs.kinetica.com

doc.quasar.ai/master

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

Kinetica

quasardb

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

Initial release

2017

2012

2009

2004

Current release

Nov 20, November 2021

7.1, August 2021

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and Java

C, C++

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

Strong typed schema

yes

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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

with tags

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined procedures and functions

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

consistent hashing

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

GPU vRAM or System RAM

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

Access rights for users and roles on table level

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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