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DBMS > IRONdb vs. RDF4J vs. Rockset vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison IRONdb vs. RDF4J vs. Rockset vs. SQL.JS

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NameIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBPort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRDF storeDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
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Score0.71
Rank#231  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.84
Rank#209  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.57
Rank#248  Overall
#114  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/rdf4j.orgrockset.comsql.js.org
Technical documentationdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedrdf4j.org/­documentationdocs.rockset.comsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperCirconus LLC.Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.RocksetAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release2017200420192012
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.commercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageC and C++JavaC++JavaScript
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
hostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemasschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesdynamic typingyes
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 infoingestion from XML files supportedno
Secondary indexesnoyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)noRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJava API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
HTTP RESTJavaScript 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
Java
PHP
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in Luayesnono
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenoneAutomatic shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awarenoneyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesEventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usednoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consoleno

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