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DBMS > Geode vs. NSDb vs. RDFox vs. STSdb vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Geode vs. NSDb vs. RDFox vs. STSdb vs. TerminusDB

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NameGeode  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Key-value storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
RDF store
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Score1.86
Rank#134  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitegeode.apache.orgnsdb.iowww.oxfordsemantic.techgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4terminusdb.com
Technical documentationgeode.apache.org/­docsnsdb.io/­Architecturedocs.oxfordsemantic.techterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.Oxford Semantic TechnologiesSTS Soft SCDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20022017201720112018
Current release1.1, February 20176.0, Septermber 20224.0.8, September 201511.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, ScalaC++C#Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinux
macOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
WindowsLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoRDF schemasyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoall fields are automatically indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (OQL)SQL-like query languagenonoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
.NET Client APIOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languages.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
Java
Scala
C
Java
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnonoyes
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationreplication via a shared file systemnoneJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes, on a single nodenoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesUsing Apache Luceneyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights per client and object definableRoles, resources, and access typesnoRole-based access control

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