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System Properties Comparison GridDB vs. Realm vs. SpaceTime vs. Stardog vs. Virtuoso

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NameGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  Xexclude from comparisonVirtuoso  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualizationVirtuoso is a multi-model hybrid-RDBMS that supports management of data represented as relational tables and/or property graphs
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument storeSpatial DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Document store
Graph DBMS
Native XML DBMS
Relational DBMS
RDF store
Search engine
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.95
Rank#128  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score7.60
Rank#52  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score2.02
Rank#123  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Score4.26
Rank#78  Overall
#13  Document stores
#4  Graph DBMS
#2  Native XML DBMS
#42  Relational DBMS
#2  RDF stores
#9  Search engines
Websitegriddb.netrealm.iowww.mireo.com/­spacetimewww.stardog.comvirtuoso.openlinksw.com
Technical documentationdocs.griddb.netrealm.io/­docsdocs.stardog.comdocs.openlinksw.com/­virtuoso
DeveloperToshiba CorporationRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019MireoStardog-UnionOpenLink Software
Initial release20132014202020101998
Current release5.1, August 20227.3.0, May 20207.2.11, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availableOpen Sourcecommercialcommercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/studentsOpen Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++JavaC
Server operating systemsLinuxAndroid
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyes infoSQL - Standard relational schema
RDF - Quad (S, P, O, G) or Triple (S, P, O)
XML - DTD, XML Schema
DAV - freeform filesystem objects, plus User Defined Types a/k/a Dynamic Extension Type
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampyesyesyesyes
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 infoImport/export of XML data possibleyes
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatialyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)noA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedYes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Serveryes infoSQL-92, SQL-200x, SQL-3, SQLX
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP APIGraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
ADO.NET
GeoSPARQL
HTTP API
JDBC
Jena RDF API
ODBC
OLE DB
RDF4J API
RESTful HTTP API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SOAP webservices
SPARQL 1.1
WebDAV
XPath
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
C#
C++
Python
.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessarynouser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Javayes infoVirtuoso PL
Triggersyesyes infoChange Listenersnoyes infovia event handlersyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneFixed-grid hypercubesnoneyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneReal-time block device replication (DRBD)Multi-source replication in HA-ClusterChain, star, and bi-directional replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in HA-ClusterImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes inforelationships in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID at container levelACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoIn-Memory realmnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseyesyesAccess rights for users and rolesFine-grained Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) in addition to typical coarse-grained Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) according to SQL-standard. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)
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GridDBRealmSpaceTimeStardogVirtuoso
Specific characteristicsGridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Virtuoso is a modern multi-model RDBMS for managing data represented as tabular relations...
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Competitive advantages1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Performance & Scale — as exemplified by DBpedia and the LOD Cloud it spawned, i.e.,...
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Typical application scenariosFactory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Used for — Analytics/BI Conceptual Data Virtualization Enterprise Knowledge Graphs...
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Key customersDenso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Broad use across enterprises and governments including — European Union (EU) US Government...
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Market metricsGitHub trending repository
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Largest installed-base ​of Multi-Model RDBMS for AI-friendly Knowledge Graphs Platform...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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Available in both Commercial Enterprise and Open Source (GPL v2) Editions Feature...
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