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DBMS > Graph Engine vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. ITTIA vs. RDF4J vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison Graph Engine vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. ITTIA vs. RDF4J vs. TimescaleDB

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NameGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonITTIA  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesEdge Time Series DBMS with Real-Time Stream ProcessingRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Event Store
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSRDF storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.67
Rank#232  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#34  Key-value stores
Score0.27
Rank#309  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score0.44
Rank#267  Overall
#23  Time Series DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score4.46
Rank#71  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.graphengine.iowww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storewww.ittia.comrdf4j.orgwww.timescale.com
Technical documentationwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storerdf4j.org/­documentationdocs.timescale.com
DeveloperMicrosoftIBMITTIA L.L.C.Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Timescale
Initial release20102017200720042017
Current release2.08.72.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation language.NET and CC and C++C and C++JavaC
Server operating systems.NETLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesFixed schemayes infoRDF Schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesFloat/Blob/Integer/String/Unicode/Date/Time/Timestamp/Intervalyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeyesnoyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesyesyesuser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersnononoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningShardingnoneyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesActive-active shard replicationyesnoneSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoyesACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesNo - written data is immutableyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageYes - 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.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardDatabase file passwordsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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