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System Properties Comparison GraphDB vs. H2GIS vs. TinkerGraph vs. VelocityDB

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NameGraphDB infoformer name: OWLIM  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  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.Spatial extension of H2A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 APIA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Spatial DBMSGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score3.10
Rank#100  Overall
#7  Graph DBMS
#4  RDF stores
Score0.05
Rank#372  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.12
Rank#344  Overall
#34  Graph DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#347  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.ontotext.comwww.h2gis.orgtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlinvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationgraphdb.ontotext.com/­documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homevelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeGitHubMedium
DeveloperOntotextCNRSVelocityDB Inc
Initial release2000201320092011
Current release10.4, October 20237.x
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoSome plugins of GraphDB Workbench are open sourcedOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaC#
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM
Linux
OS X
Windows
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support; RDF shapesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyes, supports real-time synchronization and indexing in SOLR/Elastic search/Lucene and GeoSPARQL geometry data indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLstored SPARQL accessed as SQL using Apache Calcite through JDBC/ODBCyesnono
APIs and other access methodsGeoSPARQL
GraphQL
GraphQL Federation
Java API
JDBC
RDF4J API
RDFS
RIO
Sail API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop 3.Net
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
Clojure
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaGroovy
Java
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureswell-defined plugin interfaces; JavaScript server-side extensibilityyes infobased on H2nono
TriggersnoyesnoCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infobased on H2none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency, Eventual consistency (configurable in cluster mode per master or individual client request)Immediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoConstraint checkingyesyes infoRelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)noyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesoptionalyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
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.yes infobased on H2noBased on Windows Authentication
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GraphDB infoformer name: OWLIMH2GISTinkerGraphVelocityDB
Specific characteristicsOntotext GraphDB is a semantic database engine that allows organizations to build...
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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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Typical application scenariosMetadata enrichment and management, linked data publishing, semantic inferencing...
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Key customers​ GraphDB provides a platform for building next-generation AI and Knowledge Graph...
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Market metricsGraphDB is the most utilized semantic triplestore for mission-critical enterprise...
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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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