DBMS > Geode vs. mSQL vs. RDF4J vs. RocksDB vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Geode vs. mSQL vs. RDF4J vs. RocksDB vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

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

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

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Score	1.92
Rank	#131	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Website

geode.apache.org

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

rdf4j.org

rocksdb.org

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

geode.apache.org/docs

rdf4j.org/documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

Hughes Technologies

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

Facebook, Inc.

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2002

1994

2004

2013

2018

Current release

1.1, February 2017

4.4, October 2021

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (OQL)

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Java
PHP
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes, on a single node

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

yes

Atomic execution of operations

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

Access rights per client and object definable

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