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System Properties Comparison KairosDB vs. OpenSearch vs. RDF4J vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

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

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Search engine

RDF store

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.60
Rank	#238	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	16.31
Rank	#36	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.72
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS
	#21	Object oriented DBMS

Website

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

rdf4j.org

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

kairosdb.github.io

opensearch.org/docs/latest

rdf4j.org/documentation

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Amazon Web Services

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

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2013

2021

2004

2011

Current release

1.2.2, November 2018

2.5.0, January 2023

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

.Net

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Java
PHP
Python

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

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 capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

simple password-based access control

Based on Windows Authentication

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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