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System Properties Comparison GraphDB vs. InfluxDB vs. ObjectBox vs. RethinkDB

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NameGraphDB infoformer name: OWLIM  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  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 metricsExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Time Series DBMSObject oriented DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMS
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Score3.10
Rank#100  Overall
#7  Graph DBMS
#4  RDF stores
Score26.56
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score1.22
Rank#172  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#106  Overall
#19  Document stores
Websitewww.ontotext.comwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewobjectbox.iorethinkdb.com
Technical documentationgraphdb.ontotext.com/­documentationdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbdocs.objectbox.iorethinkdb.com/­docs
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeGitHubMedium
DeveloperOntotextObjectBox LimitedThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017
Initial release2000201320172009
Current release10.4, October 20232.7.5, January 20242.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoSome plugins of GraphDB Workbench are open sourcedOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoC and C++C++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support; RDF shapesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data and Stringsyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometry
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 indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLstored SPARQL accessed as SQL using Apache Calcite through JDBC/ODBCSQL-like query languagenono
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
Proprietary native API
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
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureswell-defined plugin interfaces; JavaScript server-side extensibilitynono
TriggersnononoClient-side triggers through changefeeds
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoin enterprise version onlynoneSharding inforange based
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyonline/offline synchronization between client and serverSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
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
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoConstraint checkingnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDAtomic single-document operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMVCC based
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoDepending on used storage enginenono
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 accountsyesyes infousers and table-level permissions
More information provided by the system vendor
GraphDB infoformer name: OWLIMInfluxDBObjectBoxRethinkDB
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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