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System Properties Comparison GreptimeDB vs. RDF4J vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiency

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

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

RDF store

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	0.09
Rank	#343	Overall
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.72
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.19
Rank	#311	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

greptime.com

rdf4j.org

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.greptime.com

rdf4j.org/documentation

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Greptime Inc.

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

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2022

2004

2018

Current release

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Rust

Java

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

RDF Schemas

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

Java
PHP
Python

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

yes

in-memory journaling

User concepts

Access control

Simple rights management via user accounts

Role-based access control

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Specific characteristics

GreptimeDB is a SQL & Python-enabled timeseries database system built from scratch...
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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Greptime's clients span multiple sectors including IoT, connected vehicles, and energy...
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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