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DBMS > gStore vs. IBM Cloudant vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison gStore vs. IBM Cloudant vs. RDF4J

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NamegStore  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Document storeRDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.03
Rank#367  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#18  RDF stores
Score2.85
Rank#95  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score0.72
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websiteen.gstore.cnwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantrdf4j.org
Technical documentationen.gstore.cn/­#/­enDocscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release201620102004
Current release1.2, November 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSDcommercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesno
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Implementation languageC++ErlangJava
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJava API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyes
Triggersyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes 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.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supportedAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseno

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