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System Properties Comparison IRONdb vs. Lovefield vs. RDF4J vs. TigerGraph vs. Valentina Server

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	0.22
Rank	#306	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	0.72
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	1.44
Rank	#152	Overall
	#14	Graph DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#313	Overall
	#140	Relational DBMS

Website

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

google.github.io/lovefield

rdf4j.org

www.tigergraph.com

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

rdf4j.org/documentation

docs.tigergraph.com

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Circonus LLC.

Google

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2017

2014

2004

2017

1999

Current release

V0.10.20, January 2018

2.1.12, February 2017

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

JavaScript

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

JavaScript

Java
PHP
Python

C++
Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in Lua

yes

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic, metric affinity per node

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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