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System Properties Comparison GraphDB vs. mSQL vs. RDF4J vs. SwayDB vs. Trino

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Name

Description

Enterprise-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.

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store

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Score	3.10
Rank	#100	Overall
	#7	Graph DBMS
	#4	RDF stores

Score	1.67
Rank	#151	Overall
	#70	Relational DBMS

Score	0.71
Rank	#231	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#373	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Score	5.10
Rank	#70	Overall
	#38	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ontotext.com

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

rdf4j.org

swaydb.simer.au

trino.io

Technical documentation

graphdb.ontotext.com/documentation

rdf4j.org/documentation

trino.io/broadcast
trino.io/docs/current

Social network pages

Developer

Ontotext

Hughes Technologies

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Simer Plaha

Trino Software Foundation

Initial release

2000

1994

2004

2018

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

Current release

10.4, October 2023

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Some plugins of GraphDB Workbench are open sourced

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Starburst Galaxy offers a feature-rich user interface to connect all your data sources, manage your Trino clusters, and query your data.

Implementation language

Java

Scala

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
macOS

for devlopment

Data scheme

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support; RDF shapes

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes, supports real-time synchronization and indexing in SOLR/Elastic search/Lucene and GeoSPARQL geometry data indexes

yes

depending on connected data-source

SQL

Support of SQL

stored SPARQL accessed as SQL using Apache Calcite through JDBC/ODBC

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

GeoSPARQL
GraphQL
GraphQL Federation
Java API
JDBC
RDF4J API
RDFS
RIO
Sail API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL 1.1

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
Clojure
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Java
PHP
Python

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

well-defined plugin interfaces; JavaScript server-side extensibility

yes

yes, depending on connected data-source

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

depending on connected data-source

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

depending on connected data-source

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency, Eventual consistency (configurable in cluster mode per master or individual client request)

none

Immediate Consistency

depending on connected data-source

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Constraint checking

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Atomic execution of operations

depending on connected data-source

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

yes

depending on connected data-source

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Default 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.

SQL standard access control

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Specific characteristics

Ontotext 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 advantages

GraphDB 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 scenarios

Metadata 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 metrics

GraphDB 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 models

GraphDB 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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