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DBMS > IBM Db2 warehouse vs. RDF4J vs. Spark SQL vs. SwayDB vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 warehouse vs. RDF4J vs. Spark SQL vs. SwayDB vs. TerminusDB

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NameIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionCloud-based data warehousing serviceRDF4J 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 processingAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRDF storeRelational DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
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Score1.30
Rank#164  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehouserdf4j.orgspark.apache.org/­sqlswaydb.simer.auterminusdb.com
Technical documentationrdf4j.org/­documentationspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmlterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperIBMSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Apache Software FoundationSimer PlahaDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20142004201420182018
Current release3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 202311.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaScalaScalaProlog, Rust
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyes infoRDF Schemasyesschema-freeyes
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.no infoImport/export of XML data possiblenonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
JDBC
ODBC
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Java
PHP
Python
Java
Python
R
Scala
Java
Kotlin
Scala
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPL/SQL, SQL PLyesnonoyes
Triggersyesyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneyes, utilizing Spark CorenoneGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnonenonenoneJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usednoAtomic execution of operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
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-standardnononoRole-based access control

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