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NameGraphDB infoformer name: OWLIM
DescriptionEnterprise-ready RDF and graph database with efficient reasoning, cluster and external index synchronization support. It supports also SQL JDBC access to Knowledge Graph and GraphQL over SPARQL.
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.55
Rank#132  Overall
#10  Graph DBMS
#5  RDF stores
Websitewww.ontotext.com
Technical documentationgraphdb.ontotext.com/­documentation
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterGitHubYouTubeMedium
DeveloperOntotext
Initial release2000
Current release10.2, February 2023
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
RDF4J API
RDFS
RIO
Sail API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
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 controlDefault Basic authentication through RDF4J client, or via Java when run with cURL, default token-based in the Workbench or via Rest API, optional access through OpenID or Kerberos single sign-on.
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GraphDB infoformer name: OWLIM
Specific characteristics

GraphDB Enterprise is a high-performance semantic repository created by Ontotext. It is implemented in Java and packaged as a Storage and Inference Layer (SAIL) for the RDF4J framework. Loading, reasoning and query evaluation proceed fast even against huge ontologies and knowledge bases.

Competitive advantages

GraphDB allows you to link text and data in big knowledge graphs. It’s easy to experiment with its functions such as inserting and transforming any type of data into RDF format, the SPARQL editor, FTS connectors, visualization, geospatial and ranking. GraphDB offers Data Reconciliation, Ontology visualization and high-performance cluster proven to scale in a production environment. GraphDB offers also MongoDB integration for large-scale metadata management, semantic similarity search, based on graph embeddings, fast and flexible full-text search (FTS) connectors, such as SOLR and Elasticsearch.

Typical application scenarios

Metadata enrichment and management, linked open data publishing, semantic inferencing at scale, enterprise semantic search applications and data warehousing. 

Key customers

BBC, Press Association, Financial Times, DK, Euromoney, The British Museum, Getty Trust, UK Parliament, Raytheon, Korea Telecom, Springer Nature, Elsevier, Oxford University Press, Wiley, S&P Global Platts, and many others

Market metrics

GraphDB is the most utilized semantic triplestore for mission-critical enterprise deployments. Heavy-duty, high-availability, robust and scalable it fits perfectly in any enterprise infrastructure when stability and predictability are key.

Licensing and pricing models

GraphDB-Free is free to use. SE and Enterprise are licensed per CPU-Core used. Perpetual and annual subscription models are available.

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GraphDB infoformer name: OWLIM
Recent citations in the news

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15 May 2023, PR Newswire

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10 March 2023, Database Trends and Applications

Ontotext GraphDB Passes the Linked Data Benchmarking Council's Social Network and the Semantic Publishing Benchmarks
12 April 2023, Yahoo Finance

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5 July 2022, PR Newswire

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6 March 2023, The Register

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