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System Properties Comparison GraphDB vs. WakandaDB

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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.

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Object oriented DBMS

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Website

www.ontotext.com

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

graphdb.ontotext.com/documentation

doc.wakanda.org/home2.en.html#/Datastore/Introduction.200-588937.en.html

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Developer

Ontotext

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2000

2012

Current release

10.2, February 2023

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Some plugins of GraphDB Workbench are open sourced

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

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

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

SQL

Support of SQL

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

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

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

well-defined plugin interfaces; JavaScript server-side extensibility

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

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)

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Constraint checking

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

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.

yes

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

Ontotext GraphDB is a semantic database engine that allows organizations to build...
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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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Typical application scenarios

Metadata 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 metrics

GraphDB is the most utilized semantic triplestore for mission-critical enterprise...
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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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News

Next-Gen Graph Technology: A CDO Matters Podcast with Ontotext’s CMO Doug Kimball
8 September 2023

Generative AI – How to Care For, and Properly Feed, Chatty Robots
1 September 2023

The Importance of the Semantic Knowledge Graph
1 September 2023

Data Integration Patterns in Knowledge Graph Building with GraphDB
25 August 2023

Why Establishing Data Context is the Key to Creating Competitive Advantage
22 August 2023

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Conferences and events

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Knowledge Graph Forum
Virtual Conference, 14-16 November 2023

Recent citations in the news

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10 March 2023, Database Trends and Applications

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