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System Properties Comparison GraphDB vs. GridDB vs. H2 vs. H2GIS vs. SwayDB

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NameGraphDB infoformer name: OWLIM  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
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.Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Spatial extension of H2An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Spatial DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score3.25
Rank#91  Overall
#7  Graph DBMS
#4  RDF stores
Score2.09
Rank#120  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitewww.ontotext.comgriddb.netwww.h2database.comwww.h2gis.orgswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationgraphdb.ontotext.com/­documentationdocs.griddb.netwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­home
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeGitHubMedium
DeveloperOntotextToshiba CorporationThomas MuellerCNRSSimer Plaha
Initial release20002013200520132018
Current release10.4, October 20235.1, August 20222.2.220, July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoSome plugins of GraphDB Workbench are open sourcedOpen Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availableOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++JavaJavaScala
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxAll OS with a Java VM
Data schemeschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support; RDF shapesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampyesyesno
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyes, supports real-time synchronization and indexing in SOLR/Elastic search/Lucene and GeoSPARQL geometry data indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLstored SPARQL accessed as SQL using Apache Calcite through JDBC/ODBCSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)yesyesno
APIs and other access methodsGeoSPARQL
GraphQL
GraphQL Federation
Java API
JDBC
RDF4J API
RDFS
RIO
Sail API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL 1.1
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
Clojure
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaJavaJava
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureswell-defined plugin interfaces; JavaScript server-side extensibilitynoJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsyes infobased on H2no
Triggersnoyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseyes infobased on H2none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency, Eventual consistency (configurable in cluster mode per master or individual client request)Immediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoConstraint checkingnoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID at container levelACIDACIDAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes
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.Access rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infobased on H2no
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GraphDB infoformer name: OWLIMGridDBH2H2GISSwayDB
Specific characteristicsOntotext GraphDB is a semantic database engine that allows organizations to build...
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GridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Competitive advantagesGraphDB allows you to link text and data in big knowledge graphs. It’s easy to experiment...
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1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Typical application scenariosMetadata enrichment and management, linked data publishing, semantic inferencing...
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Factory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Key customers​ GraphDB provides a platform for building next-generation AI and Knowledge Graph...
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Denso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metricsGraphDB is the most utilized semantic triplestore for mission-critical enterprise...
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GitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing modelsGraphDB Free is a non-commercial version and is free to use. GraphDB Enterprise edition...
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Open Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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