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System Properties Comparison IRONdb vs. RDF4J vs. Tarantool vs. Transbase vs. TypeDB

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NameIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonTarantool  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  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.In-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applicationsA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMSTypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRDF storeDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS infoOften described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith Tarantool/GIS extension
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Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score1.72
Rank#144  Overall
#25  Document stores
#25  Key-value stores
#66  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Score0.65
Rank#234  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#107  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/rdf4j.orgwww.tarantool.iowww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.htmltypedb.com
Technical documentationdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedrdf4j.org/­documentationwww.tarantool.io/­en/­docwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.htmltypedb.com/­docs
DeveloperCirconus LLC.Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.VKTransaction Software GmbHVaticle
Initial release20172004200819872016
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20182.10.0, May 2022Transbase 8.3, 20222.26.3, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoBSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprisecommercial infofree development licenseOpen Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++JavaC and C++C and C++Java
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
BSD
Linux
macOS
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoRDF SchemasFlexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columnsyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesstring, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetimeyesyes
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 indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)noFull-featured ANSI SQL supportyesno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJava API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Open binary protocolADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)
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
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in LuayesLua, C and SQL stored proceduresyesno
Triggersnoyesyes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session eventsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenoneSharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.Sharding infoby using Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awarenoneAsynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)
Source-replica replicationMulti-source replication infoby using Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infoby using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesCasual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition infowhen using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition infowhen using Raft
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno infosubstituted by the relationship feature
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactionsyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, cooperative multitaskingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyes, write ahead loggingyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistencenono
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoAccess Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles
fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progress
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IRONdbRDF4J infoformerly known as SesameTarantoolTransbaseTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn
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