DBMS > Galaxybase vs. LMDB vs. RDF4J vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Galaxybase vs. LMDB vs. RDF4J vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

A high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database library

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

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

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Score	0.07
Rank	#377	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Score	2.09
Rank	#121	Overall
	#20	Key-value stores

Score	0.74
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

galaxybase.com

www.symas.com/symas-embedded-database-lmdb

rdf4j.org

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

www.lmdb.tech/doc

rdf4j.org/documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

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

Symas

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

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2017

2011

2004

2014

Current release

Nov 20, November 2021

0.9.32, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and Java

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

Strong typed schema

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl

Java
PHP
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined procedures and functions

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

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

Role-based access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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