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DBMS > Graph Engine vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. RDF4J vs. TimescaleDB vs. Transwarp Hippo

System Properties Comparison Graph Engine vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. RDF4J vs. TimescaleDB vs. Transwarp Hippo

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NameGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp Hippo  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesRDF4J 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 PostgreSQLCloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
RDF storeTime Series DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.67
Rank#232  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#34  Key-value stores
Score3.05
Rank#97  Overall
#17  Document stores
#16  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score4.46
Rank#71  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#386  Overall
#14  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.graphengine.iowww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlrdf4j.orgwww.timescale.comwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­subproduct/­hippo
Technical documentationwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmlrdf4j.org/­documentationdocs.timescale.com
DeveloperMicrosoftOracleSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Timescale
Initial release20102011200420172023
Current release23.3, December 20232.15.0, May 20241.0, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)Open Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation language.NET and CJavaJavaCC++
Server operating systems.NETLinux
Solaris SPARC/x86
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.yes infoRDF Schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptionalyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data typesVector, Numeric and String
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
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntaxno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIJava 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
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C++
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesuser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shellno
Triggersnonoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningShardingnoneyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featurenoneSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodswith Hadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)ACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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 storageyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infooff heap cachenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole based access control and fine grained access rights

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Graph Engine infoformer name: TrinityOracle NoSQLRDF4J infoformerly known as SesameTimescaleDBTranswarp Hippo
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