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System Properties Comparison Hazelcast vs. RDF4J vs. Spark SQL vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

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

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

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Score	5.97
Rank	#57	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	18.96
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

hazelcast.com

rdf4j.org

spark.apache.org/sql

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

rdf4j.org/documentation

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

Developer

Hazelcast

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

Apache Software Foundation

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2008

2004

2014

2011

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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.

yes

the object must implement a serialization strategy

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Java
PHP
Python

Java
Python
R
Scala

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

yes

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes, utilizing Spark Core

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Replicated Map

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

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 capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

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