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DBMS > Ingres vs. Lovefield vs. MarkLogic vs. RDF4J vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison Ingres vs. Lovefield vs. MarkLogic vs. RDF4J vs. Trafodion

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NameIngres  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonMarkLogic  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionWell established RDBMSEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptOperational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL databaseRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store infoas of version 7
Search engine
RDF storeRelational DBMS
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Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score5.18
Rank#63  Overall
#11  Document stores
#1  Native XML DBMS
#1  RDF stores
#7  Search engines
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websitewww.actian.com/­databases/­ingresgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldwww.marklogic.comrdf4j.orgtrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationdocs.actian.com/­ingresgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mddocs.marklogic.comrdf4j.org/­documentationtrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperActian CorporationGoogleMarkLogic Corp.Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release1974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s2014200120042014
Current release11.2, May 20222.1.12, February 201711.0, December 20222.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCJavaScriptC++JavaC++, Java
Server operating systemsAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-free infoSchema can be enforcedyes infoRDF Schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.no infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availablenoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternyes infoSQL92noyes
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API infoProprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
PHP
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes infovia XQuery or JavaScriptyesJava Stored Procedures
TriggersyesUsing read-only observersyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslynoneShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesIngres Replicatornoneyesnoneyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infovia Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobsnoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID infocan act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transactionACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMVCCyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infousing MemoryDByes, with Range Indexesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoRole-based access control at the document and subdocument levelsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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