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DBMS > GraphDB vs. IRONdb vs. Quasardb vs. SiriDB vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison GraphDB vs. IRONdb vs. Quasardb vs. SiriDB vs. Trafodion

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NameGraphDB infoformer name: OWLIM  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
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.A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseOpen Source Time Series DBMSTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score3.25
Rank#91  Overall
#7  Graph DBMS
#4  RDF stores
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#378  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.ontotext.comwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/quasar.aisiridb.comtrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationgraphdb.ontotext.com/­documentationdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddoc.quasar.ai/­masterdocs.siridb.comtrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeGitHubMedium
DeveloperOntotextCirconus LLC.quasardbCesbitApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20002017200920172014
Current release10.4, October 2023V0.10.20, January 20183.14.1, January 20242.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoSome plugins of GraphDB Workbench are open sourcedcommercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++C++CC++, Java
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support; RDF shapesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyes infointeger and binaryyes infoNumeric datayes
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 indexesnoyes infowith tagsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLstored SPARQL accessed as SQL using Apache Calcite through JDBC/ODBCSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)SQL-like query languagenoyes
APIs and other access methodsGeoSPARQL
GraphQL
GraphQL Federation
Java API
JDBC
RDF4J API
RDFS
RIO
Sail API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL 1.1
HTTP APIHTTP APIHTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
Clojure
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureswell-defined plugin interfaces; JavaScript server-side extensibilityyes, in LuanonoJava Stored Procedures
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding infoconsistent hashingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareSource-replica replication with selectable replication factoryesyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integrationnoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
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 per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoConstraint checkingnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoTransient modeyesno
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.noCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailsimple rights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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GraphDB infoformer name: OWLIMIRONdbQuasardbSiriDBTrafodion
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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