DB-EnginesExtremeDB for everyone with an RTOSEnglish
Deutsch
Knowledge Base of Relational and NoSQL Database Management Systemsprovided by solid IT

DBMS > GeoMesa vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Ignite vs. RDF4J vs. Stardog

System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Ignite vs. RDF4J vs. Stardog

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines
NameGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesApache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
RDF storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#323  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score2.02
Rank#123  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Websitewww.geomesa.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storeignite.apache.orgrdf4j.orgwww.stardog.com
Technical documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storeapacheignite.readme.io/­docsrdf4j.org/­documentationdocs.stardog.com
DeveloperCCRi and othersIBMApache Software FoundationSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Stardog-Union
Initial release20142017201520042010
Current release4.0.5, February 20242.0Apache Ignite 2.67.3.0, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.commercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.
Implementation languageScalaC and C++C++, Java, .NetJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes infoRDF Schemasschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesno infoImport/export of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnoYes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
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 languagesC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yesuser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java
Triggersnonoyes (cache interceptors and events)yesyes infovia event handlers
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on storage layerShardingShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layerActive-active shard replicationyes (replicated cache)noneMulti-source replication in HA-Cluster
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layerEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in HA-Cluster
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes inforelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesNo - written data is immutableyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared 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.depending on storage layeryesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsnoAccess rights for users and roles

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources
GeoMesaIBM Db2 Event StoreIgniteRDF4J infoformerly known as SesameStardog
DB-Engines blog posts

Spatial database management systems
6 April 2021, Matthias Gelbmann

show all

Recent citations in the news

Advancements in streaming data storage, real-time analysis and machine learning
25 July 2019, ibm.com

IBM Builds New Ultra-Fast Platform for Hoovering Up and Analyzing Data from Anywhere
31 May 2018, Data Center Knowledge

How IBM Is Turning Db2 into an 'AI Database'
3 June 2019, Datanami

Best cloud databases of 2022
4 October 2022, ITPro

Why a robust data management strategy is essential today | IBM HDM
19 September 2019, Express Computer

provided by Google News

GridGain Announces Call for Speakers for Virtual Apache Ignite Summit 2024
8 February 2024, PR Newswire

Apache Ignite: An Overview
6 September 2023, Open Source For You

GridGain Releases Conference Schedule for Virtual Apache Ignite Summit 2023
1 June 2023, Datanami

What is Apache Ignite? How is Apache Ignite Used?
18 July 2022, The Stack

Real-time in-memory OLTP and Analytics with Apache Ignite on AWS | Amazon Web Services
14 May 2016, AWS Blog

provided by Google News

GraphDB Goes Open Source
27 January 2020, iProgrammer

Ontotext's GraphDB 8.10 Makes Knowledge Graph Experience Faster and Richer
13 June 2019, Markets Insider

provided by Google News



Share this page

Featured Products

Datastax Astra logo

Bring all your data to Generative AI applications with vector search enabled by the most scalable
vector database available.
Try for Free

SingleStore logo

Build AI apps with Vectors on SQL and JSON with milliseconds response times.
Try it today.

RaimaDB logo

RaimaDB, embedded database for mission-critical applications. When performance, footprint and reliability matters.
Try RaimaDB for free.

Milvus logo

Vector database designed for GenAI, fully equipped for enterprise implementation.
Try Managed Milvus for Free

Neo4j logo

See for yourself how a graph database can make your life easier.
Use Neo4j online for free.

Present your product here