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System Properties Comparison GraphDB vs. HarperDB vs. HBase vs. Microsoft Access vs. PouchDB

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NameGraphDB infoformer name: OWLIM  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  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.Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableMicrosoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Document storeWide column storeRelational DBMSDocument store
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Score3.25
Rank#91  Overall
#7  Graph DBMS
#4  RDF stores
Score0.60
Rank#244  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websitewww.ontotext.comwww.harperdb.iohbase.apache.orgwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesspouchdb.com
Technical documentationgraphdb.ontotext.com/­documentationdocs.harperdb.io/­docshbase.apache.org/­book.htmldeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accesspouchdb.com/­guides
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeGitHubMedium
DeveloperOntotextHarperDBApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetMicrosoftApache Software Foundation
Initial release20002017200819922012
Current release10.4, October 20233.1, August 20212.3.4, January 20211902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20197.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoSome plugins of GraphDB Workbench are open sourcedcommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache version 2commercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaNode.jsJavaC++JavaScript
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support; RDF shapesdynamic schemaschema-free, schema definition possibleyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoJSON data typesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesno
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 indexesyesnoyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLstored SPARQL accessed as SQL using Apache Calcite through JDBC/ODBCSQL-like data manipulation statementsnoyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardno
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
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
Clojure
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureswell-defined plugin interfaces; JavaScript server-side extensibilityCustom Functions infosince release 3.1yes infoCoprocessors in Javayes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnonoyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusterShardingnoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definedMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency, Eventual consistency (configurable in cluster mode per master or individual client request)Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoConstraint checkingnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic execution of specific operationsSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACID infobut no files for transaction loggingno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, using LMDByesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend
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.Access rights for users and rolesAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003no
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GraphDB infoformer name: OWLIMHarperDBHBaseMicrosoft AccessPouchDB
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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