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System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. ObjectBox vs. Stardog vs. Tkrzw vs. YDB

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NameHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  Xexclude from comparisonTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet  Xexclude from comparisonYDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileEnterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualizationA concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto CabinetA distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSObject oriented DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Key-value storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score2.07
Rank#122  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Score0.07
Rank#372  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Score0.33
Rank#287  Overall
#43  Document stores
#132  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­spotify/­heroicobjectbox.iowww.stardog.comdbmx.net/­tkrzwgithub.com/­ydb-platform/­ydb
ydb.tech
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.objectbox.iodocs.stardog.comydb.tech/­en/­docs
DeveloperSpotifyObjectBox LimitedStardog-UnionMikio HirabayashiYandex
Initial release20142017201020202019
Current release7.3.0, May 20200.9.3, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache License 2.0commercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/studentsOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++JavaC++
Server operating systemsAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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.nonono infoImport/export of XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatialyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoYes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL ServernoSQL-like query language (YQL)
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Proprietary native APIGraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Javanono
Triggersnonoyes infovia event handlersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesonline/offline synchronization between client and serverMulti-source replication in HA-ClusternoneActive-passive shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in HA-ClusterImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes inforelationships in graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesyes infousing specific database classesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights for users and rolesnoAccess rights defined for Yandex Cloud users
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