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NameGraphDB infoformer name: OWLIM
DescriptionEnterprise-ready RDF and graph database with Graph AI (GraphRAG) capabilities, efficient reasoning, cluster and external index synchronization support. Features include SQL JDBC access, GraphQL over SPARQL, MCP support, and enterprise-grade security with Encryption at rest.
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsyes, supports real-time synchronization and indexing with Elasticsearch and OpenSearch (including vector search capabilities), Lucene, Kafka, and GeoSPARQL geometry data indexes
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Score2.38
Rank#108  Overall
#7  Graph DBMS
#4  RDF stores
Websitewww.graphwise.ai
Technical documentationgraphdb.ontotext.com/­documentation
DeveloperOntotext, trading as Graphwise
Initial release2000
Current release11.5. (August 2026)
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoSome plugins of GraphDB Workbench are open sourced
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceno
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Implementation languageJava
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support; RDF shapes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes
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.no
Secondary indexesyes, supports real-time synchronization and indexing in SOLR/Elastic search/Lucene and GeoSPARQL geometry data indexes
SQL infoSupport of SQLstored SPARQL accessed as SQL using Apache Calcite through JDBC/ODBC
APIs and other access methodsGeoSPARQL
GraphQL
GraphQL Federation
Java API
JDBC
Model Context Protocol (MCP)
RDF4J API
RDFS
REST API
RIO
Sail API
SPARQL 1.1
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
Clojure
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureswell-defined plugin interfaces; JavaScript server-side extensibility
Triggersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency, Eventual consistency (configurable in cluster mode per master or individual client request)
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoConstraint checking
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess control supporting Authentication (Basic authentication, GraphDB Token-based, Kerberos, X.509 certificates, OpenID) and Authorization (Local DB, LDAP, OAuth - available when OpenID is used).

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GraphDB infoformer name: OWLIM
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