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System Properties Comparison HyperSQL vs. IRONdb vs. Oracle Rdb vs. RDF4J vs. RDFox

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NameHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRDF storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score3.49
Rank#87  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#184  Overall
#85  Relational DBMS
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.23
Rank#308  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#14  RDF stores
Websitehsqldb.orgwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmlrdf4j.orgwww.oxfordsemantic.tech
Technical documentationhsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmldocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmlrdf4j.org/­documentationdocs.oxfordsemantic.tech
DeveloperCirconus LLC.Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Oxford Semantic Technologies
Initial release20012017198420042017
Current release2.7.2, June 2023V0.10.20, January 20187.4.1.1, 20216.0, Septermber 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infobased on BSD licensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++JavaC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesLinuxHP Open VMSLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yes infoRDF Schemasyes infoRDF schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyesyes
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
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)yesnono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIJava API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Java
PHP
Python
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava, SQLyes, in Luayes
Triggersyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awarenonereplication via a shared file system
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoyes, on a single nodeACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnonoRoles, resources, and access types

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