DBMS > IRONdb vs. Memgraph vs. RDF4J vs. RocksDB vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison IRONdb vs. Memgraph vs. RDF4J vs. RocksDB vs. SwayDB

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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

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

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

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

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Score	3.00
Rank	#102	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	0.71
Rank	#231	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	4.00
Rank	#84	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#373	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Website

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

Technical documentation

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

memgraph.com/docs

rdf4j.org/documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Social network pages

Developer

Circonus LLC.

Memgraph Ltd

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

Facebook, Inc.

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2017

2004

2013

2018

Current release

V0.10.20, January 2018

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Free license available

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free and schema-optional

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

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)

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java
PHP
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in Lua

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

Multi-source replication using RAFT

none

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

with snapshot isolation

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

yes

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

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

User concepts

Access control

Users, roles and permissions

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