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System Properties Comparison Graph Engine vs. RDF4J vs. Tigris

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Name

Description

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

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

A horizontally scalable, ACID transactional, document database available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

RDF store

Document store
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.64
Rank	#232	Overall
	#20	Graph DBMS
	#33	Key-value stores

Score	0.65
Rank	#228	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#49	Document stores
	#53	Key-value stores
	#23	Search engines
	#38	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.graphengine.io

rdf4j.org

www.tigrisdata.com

Technical documentation

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

rdf4j.org/documentation

www.tigrisdata.com/docs

Developer

Microsoft

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

Tigris Data, Inc.

Initial release

2010

2004

2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

.NET and C

Java

Server operating systems

.NET

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

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

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

CLI Client
gRPC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

Java
PHP
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

yes, using FoundationDB

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 for users and roles

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