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System Properties Comparison KeyDB vs. MaxDB vs. Newts vs. RDF4J vs. SiriDB

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Name

Description

An ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocols

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

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

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	0.71
Rank	#226	Overall
	#33	Key-value stores

Score	2.32
Rank	#112	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Website

github.com/Snapchat/KeyDB
keydb.dev

maxdb.sap.com

opennms.github.io/newts

rdf4j.org

siridb.com

Technical documentation

docs.keydb.dev

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

rdf4j.org/documentation

docs.siridb.com

Developer

EQ Alpha Technology Ltd.

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

OpenNMS Group

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

Cesbit

Initial release

2019

1984

2014

2004

2017

Current release

7.9.10.12, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD-3

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

partial

Supported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes

yes

Numeric data

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

by using the Redis Search module

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protoco

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

HTTP REST
Java API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Java

Java
PHP
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Optimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scripts

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

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 and ACL

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts

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