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DBMS > Graph Engine vs. gStore vs. RDF4J vs. SurrealDB vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison Graph Engine vs. gStore vs. RDF4J vs. SurrealDB vs. TimescaleDB

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NameGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisongStore  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  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 engineA native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMSA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Graph DBMS
RDF store
RDF storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score0.59
Rank#235  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#33  Key-value stores
Score0.02
Rank#372  Overall
#38  Graph DBMS
#19  RDF stores
Score0.82
Rank#208  Overall
#7  RDF stores
Score1.01
Rank#181  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
Score3.68
Rank#74  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.graphengine.ioen.gstore.cnrdf4j.orgsurrealdb.comwww.timescale.com
Technical documentationwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualen.gstore.cn/­#/­enDocsrdf4j.org/­documentationsurrealdb.com/­docsdocs.timescale.com
DeveloperMicrosoftSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.SurrealDB LtdTimescale
Initial release20102016200420222017
Current release1.2, November 2023v1.5.0, May 20242.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation language.NET and CC++JavaRustC
Server operating systems.NETLinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyes infoRDF Schemasschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesnumerics, 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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query languageyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Java
PHP
Python
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesyesuser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningnoneyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-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 systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedACIDACID
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.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supportednoyes, based on authentication and database rulesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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