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DBMS > GridGain vs. LMDB vs. RDF4J vs. STSdb vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. LMDB vs. RDF4J vs. STSdb vs. TerminusDB

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NameGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonLMDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteA high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database libraryRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.Key-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeRDF storeKey-value storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
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Score1.55
Rank#150  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#70  Relational DBMS
Score2.09
Rank#121  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.gridgain.comwww.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdbrdf4j.orggithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4terminusdb.com
Technical documentationwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlwww.lmdb.tech/­docrdf4j.org/­documentationterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperGridGain Systems, Inc.SymasSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.STS Soft SCDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20072011200420112018
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.10.9.32, January 20244.0.8, September 201511.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetCJavaC#Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
WindowsLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemasyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnononoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
.NET Client APIOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl
Java
PHP
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)noyesnoyes
Triggersyes (cache interceptors and events)noyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenonenoneGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes (replicated cache)nonenonenoneJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usednoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsnononoRole-based access control

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