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System Properties Comparison GraphDB vs. GridGain vs. RocksDB vs. SAP HANA vs. YugabyteDB

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Name

Description

Enterprise-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.

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Wide column store

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Score	3.25
Rank	#91	Overall
	#7	Graph DBMS
	#4	RDF stores

Score	1.55
Rank	#150	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#70	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	2.63
Rank	#109	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ontotext.com

www.gridgain.com

rocksdb.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.yugabyte.com

Technical documentation

graphdb.ontotext.com/documentation

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

help.sap.com/hana

docs.yugabyte.com
github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db

Social network pages

Developer

Ontotext

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Facebook, Inc.

SAP

Yugabyte Inc.

Initial release

2000

2007

2013

2010

2017

Current release

10.4, October 2023

GridGain 8.5.1

9.2.1, May 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

2.19, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Some plugins of GraphDB Workbench are open sourced

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, C++, .Net

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support; RDF shapes

yes

schema-free

yes

depending on used data model

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes, supports real-time synchronization and indexing in SOLR/Elastic search/Lucene and GeoSPARQL geometry data indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

stored SPARQL accessed as SQL using Apache Calcite through JDBC/ODBC

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

yes, PostgreSQL compatible

APIs and other access methods

GeoSPARQL
GraphQL
GraphQL Federation
Java API
JDBC
RDF4J API
RDFS
RIO
Sail API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL 1.1

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
Clojure
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

well-defined plugin interfaces; JavaScript server-side extensibility

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

SQLScript, R

yes

sql, plpgsql, C

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

yes

Hash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes (replicated cache)

yes

Based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency, Eventual consistency (configurable in cluster mode per master or individual client request)

Immediate Consistency

Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Constraint checking

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

Distributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

based on RocksDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Default 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.

Security Hooks for custom implementations

yes

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

Ontotext GraphDB is a semantic database engine that allows organizations to build...
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YugabyteDB is an open source distributed SQL database for cloud native transactional...
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Competitive advantages

GraphDB allows you to link text and data in big knowledge graphs. It’s easy to experiment...
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PostgreSQL compatible: Get instantly productive with a PostgreSQL compatible RDBMS....
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Typical application scenarios

Metadata enrichment and management, linked data publishing, semantic inferencing...
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Systems of record and engagement for cloud native applications that require resilience,...
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Key customers

GraphDB provides a platform for building next-generation AI and Knowledge Graph...
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Market metrics

GraphDB is the most utilized semantic triplestore for mission-critical enterprise...
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2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB Community...
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Licensing and pricing models

GraphDB Free is a non-commercial version and is free to use. GraphDB Enterprise edition...
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Apache 2.0 license for the database
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