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DBMS > IRONdb vs. RDF4J vs. StarRocks vs. SwayDB vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison IRONdb vs. RDF4J vs. StarRocks vs. SwayDB vs. TigerGraph

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NameIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonStarRocks  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  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.An open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics infoForked from Apache DorisAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRDF storeRelational DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMS
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Score0.71
Rank#231  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score1.12
Rank#182  Overall
#82  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#373  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Score1.83
Rank#141  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/rdf4j.orgwww.starrocks.ioswaydb.simer.auwww.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedrdf4j.org/­documentationdocs.starrocks.io/­en-us/­latest/­introduction/­StarRocks_introdocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperCirconus LLC.Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.The Linux Foundation infosince Feb 2023Simer Plaha
Initial release20172004202020182017
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20182.5.3, March 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++JavaC++, JavaScalaC++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemasyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyesnoyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)noyesnoSQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJava API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
JDBC
MySQL protocol
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON 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
JavaJava
Kotlin
Scala
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in Luayesuser defined functionsnoyes
Triggersnoyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenonehorizontal partitioning (by range and hash)none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awarenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID 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
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoRole based access control and fine grained access rightsnoRole-based access control

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