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System Properties Comparison GraphDB vs. InfluxDB vs. Interbase vs. RDF4J vs. Spark SQL

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NameGraphDB infoformer name: OWLIM  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  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.DBMS for storing time series, events and metricsLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSRDF storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
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Score3.10
Rank#100  Overall
#7  Graph DBMS
#4  RDF stores
Score26.56
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score5.04
Rank#71  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score0.71
Rank#231  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score19.15
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ontotext.comwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbaserdf4j.orgspark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationgraphdb.ontotext.com/­documentationdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbaserdf4j.org/­documentationspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeGitHubMedium
DeveloperOntotextEmbarcaderoSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Apache Software Foundation
Initial release20002013198420042014
Current release10.4, October 20232.7.5, January 2024InterBase 2020, December 20193.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoSome plugins of GraphDB Workbench are open sourcedOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoCJavaScala
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support; RDF shapesschema-freeyesyes infoRDF Schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data and Stringsyesyesyes
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.nonono infoexport as XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyes, supports real-time synchronization and indexing in SOLR/Elastic search/Lucene and GeoSPARQL geometry data indexesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLstored SPARQL accessed as SQL using Apache Calcite through JDBC/ODBCSQL-like query languageyesnoSQL-like DML and DDL statements
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 API
JSON over UDP
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
Clojure
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
Java
PHP
Python
Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureswell-defined plugin interfaces; JavaScript server-side extensibilitynoyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageyesno
Triggersnonoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoin enterprise version onlynonenoneyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyInterbase Change Viewsnonenone
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 Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoConstraint checkingnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoDepending on used storage engineyesno
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.simple rights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono
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GraphDB infoformer name: OWLIMInfluxDBInterbaseRDF4J infoformerly known as SesameSpark SQL
Specific characteristicsOntotext GraphDB is a semantic database engine that allows organizations to build...
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InfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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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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Time to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosMetadata enrichment and management, linked data publishing, semantic inferencing...
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IoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customers​ GraphDB provides a platform for building next-generation AI and Knowledge Graph...
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InfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsGraphDB is the most utilized semantic triplestore for mission-critical enterprise...
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Fastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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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 core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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