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NameGraphDB infoformer name: OWLIM  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTrino  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.Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesFast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score3.32
Rank#91  Overall
#6  Graph DBMS
#4  RDF stores
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score5.00
Rank#66  Overall
#36  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ontotext.comwww.kinetica.comsphinxsearch.comtrino.io
Technical documentationgraphdb.ontotext.com/­documentationdocs.kinetica.comsphinxsearch.com/­docstrino.io/­broadcast
trino.io/­docs/­current
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeGitHubMediumLinkedInTwitterYouTubeGitHub
DeveloperOntotextKineticaSphinx Technologies Inc.Trino Software Foundation
Initial release2000201220012012 info2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL
Current release10.4, October 20237.1, August 20213.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoSome plugins of GraphDB Workbench are open sourcedcommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC, C++C++Java
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS infofor devlopment
Data schemeschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support; RDF shapesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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
Secondary indexesyes, supports real-time synchronization and indexing in SOLR/Elastic search/Lucene and GeoSPARQL geometry data indexesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsdepending on connected data-source
SQL infoSupport of SQLstored SPARQL accessed as SQL using Apache Calcite through JDBC/ODBCSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yes
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
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocolJDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
Clojure
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureswell-defined plugin interfaces; JavaScript server-side extensibilityuser defined functionsnoyes, depending on connected data-source
Triggersnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangenono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supporteddepending on connected data-source
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationnonedepending on connected data-source
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 or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationdepending on connected data-source
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoConstraint checkingyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonodepending on connected data-source
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.depending on connected data-source
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoGPU vRAM or System RAM
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 roles on table levelnoSQL standard access control
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GraphDB infoformer name: OWLIMKineticaSphinxTrino
Specific characteristicsOntotext GraphDB is a semantic database engine that allows organizations to build...
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Trino is the fastest open source, massively parallel processing SQL query engine...
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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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High performance analtyics and data processing of very large data sets Powerful ANSI...
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Typical application scenariosMetadata enrichment and management, linked data publishing, semantic inferencing...
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Performant analytics query engine for data warehouses, data lakes, and data lakehouses...
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Key customers​ GraphDB provides a platform for building next-generation AI and Knowledge Graph...
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Trino is widely adopted across the globe as freely-available open source software....
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Market metricsGraphDB is the most utilized semantic triplestore for mission-critical enterprise...
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33000+ commits in GitHub 8200+ stargazers in GitHub 1200+ pull requests merged in...
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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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Trino is an open source project and usage is therefore free. Commercial offerings...
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