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DBMS > InfinityDB vs. Memcached vs. RDF4J vs. RocksDB vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison InfinityDB vs. Memcached vs. RDF4J vs. RocksDB vs. SQream DB

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NameInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingRDF4J 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)a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value storeRDF storeKey-value storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.00
Rank#378  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score3.65
Rank#85  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Score0.70
Rank#227  Overall
#104  Relational DBMS
Websiteboilerbay.comwww.memcached.orgrdf4j.orgrocksdb.orgsqream.com
Technical documentationboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikirdf4j.org/­documentationgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikidocs.sqream.com
DeveloperBoiler Bay Inc.Danga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Facebook, Inc.SQream Technologies
Initial release20022003200420132017
Current release4.01.6.25, March 20248.11.4, April 20242022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoBSDcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCJavaC++C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemasschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysnoyesnoyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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
Secondary indexesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynoyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoyes
APIs and other access methodsAccess via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
Proprietary protocolJava API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
C++ API
Java API
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
PHP
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesnouser defined functions in Python
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenonehorizontal partitioninghorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallitynoneyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsnoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolnono

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