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System Properties Comparison InfinityDB vs. Oracle Rdb vs. RDF4J

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Name

Description

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

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

RDF store

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Rank	#359	Overall
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Score	1.08
Rank	#187	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Score	0.71
Rank	#231	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

boilerbay.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

rdf4j.org

Technical documentation

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Boiler Bay Inc.

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

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

Initial release

2002

1984

2004

Current release

4.0

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

HP Open VMS

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

RDF Schemas

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

Java

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

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

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

yes, on a single node

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

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

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