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System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. RDF4J

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NameGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelColumnar
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.33
Rank#154  Overall
#1  Columnar
#26  Key-value stores
#2  Object oriented DBMS
#70  Relational DBMS
Score0.68
Rank#223  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websitewww.gridgain.comrdf4j.org
Technical documentationwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperGridGain Systems, Inc.Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release20072004
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.1
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial, open sourceOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .Net, Python, REST, SQLJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infoRDF Schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes
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.yes
Secondary indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLno
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
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yes
Triggersyes (cache interceptors and events)yes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes (replicated cache)none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)no
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as well
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access control
Security Hooks for custom implementations
no

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