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DBMS > LevelDB vs. RavenDB vs. RDF4J vs. TerminusDB vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison LevelDB vs. RavenDB vs. RDF4J vs. TerminusDB vs. Trafodion

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NameLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionEmbeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document DatabaseRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeRDF storeGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
RDF store
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Score2.35
Rank#111  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score2.92
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­google/­leveldbravendb.netrdf4j.orgterminusdb.comtrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mdravendb.net/­docsrdf4j.org/­documentationterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#trafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperGoogleHibernating RhinosSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.DataChemist Ltd.Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20112010200420182014
Current release1.23, February 20215.4, July 202211.0.0, January 20232.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availableOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C#JavaProlog, RustC++, Java
Server operating systemsIllumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemasyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (RQL)noSQL-like query language (WOQL)yes
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
PHP
Python
JavaScript
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyesyesJava Stored Procedures
Triggersnoyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneGraph PartitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationnoneJournaling Streamsyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID, Cluster-wide transaction availableACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infowith automatic compression on writesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyes infoin-memory journalingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAuthorization levels configured per client per databasenoRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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