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DBMS > IBM Db2 Event Store vs. MaxDB vs. RDF4J vs. Stardog

System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 Event Store vs. MaxDB vs. RDF4J vs. Stardog

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NameIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization
Primary database modelEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSRDF storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score2.65
Rank#111  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score0.71
Rank#231  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score2.05
Rank#129  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storemaxdb.sap.comrdf4j.orgwww.stardog.com
Technical documentationwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storemaxdb.sap.com/­documentationrdf4j.org/­documentationdocs.stardog.com
DeveloperIBMSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Stardog-Union
Initial release2017198420042010
Current release2.07.9.10.12, February 20247.3.0, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.commercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C++JavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyes infoRDF Schemasschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 possible
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeyesnoYes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesyesuser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java
Triggersnoyesyesyes infovia event handlers
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesActive-active shard replicationSource-replica replicationnoneMulti-source replication in HA-Cluster
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in HA-Cluster
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes inforelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of dataNo - written data is immutableyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyes 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.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users and roles

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