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System Properties Comparison InfinityDB vs. RDF4J vs. STSdb vs. TerminusDB vs. WakandaDB

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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.

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	0.08
Rank	#365	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores

Score	0.74
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#356	Overall
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

boilerbay.com

rdf4j.org

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

terminusdb.com

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

rdf4j.org/documentation

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Boiler Bay Inc.

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

STS Soft SC

DataChemist Ltd.

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2002

2004

2011

2018

2012

Current release

4.0

4.0.8, September 2015

11.0.0, January 2023

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Prolog, Rust

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

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

.NET Client API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

Java
PHP
Python

C#
Java

JavaScript
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Graph Partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Journaling Streams

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

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

ACID

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 journaling

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

yes

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