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System Properties Comparison InfinityDB vs. Kinetica vs. RDF4J vs. Rockset

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Name

Description

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

RDF4J 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 RocksDB

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Score	0.42
Rank	#261	Overall
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	0.72
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	1.07
Rank	#180	Overall
	#31	Document stores

Website

Technical documentation

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

docs.kinetica.com

rdf4j.org/documentation

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Boiler Bay Inc.

Kinetica

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

Rockset

Initial release

2002

2012

2004

2019

Current release

4.0

7.1, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

yes

dynamic typing

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Java

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java
PHP
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

GPU vRAM or System RAM

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles on table level

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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