DBMS > Kinetica vs. RDF4J vs. SQLite vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Kinetica vs. RDF4J vs. SQLite vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

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

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

RDF store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.42
Rank	#261	Overall
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	0.72
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	103.35
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#355	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

www.kinetica.com

rdf4j.org

www.sqlite.org

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

docs.kinetica.com

rdf4j.org/documentation

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Kinetica

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

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2012

2004

2000

1987

Current release

7.1, August 2021

3.46.1 (13 August 2024), August 2024

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

Public Domain

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, C++

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

server-less

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java
PHP
Python

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

GPU vRAM or System RAM

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles on table level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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